Add a function to get a dump of private headers from dll.

1 files changed, 5 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/numpy/distutils/mingw32ccompiler.py b/numpy/distutils/mingw32ccompiler.py
index 5769577e0..af0ac2a16 100644
--- a/numpy/distutils/mingw32ccompiler.py
+++ b/numpy/distutils/mingw32ccompiler.py
@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@ Support code for building Python extensions on Windows.
 import os
 import sys
 import log
+import subprocess
 
 # Overwrite certain distutils.ccompiler functions:
 import numpy.distutils.ccompiler
@@ -212,6 +213,10 @@ def find_python_dll():
 
     raise ValueError("%s not found in %s" % (dllname, lib_dirs))
 
+def dump_table(dll):
+    st = subprocess.Popen(["objdump.exe", "-p", dll], stdout=subprocess.PIPE)
+    return st.stdout.readlines()
+
 def build_import_library():
     """ Build the import libraries for Mingw32-gcc on Windows
     """