Library linking demo.

diff --git a/Demos/libraries/call_mymath.pyx b/Demos/libraries/call_mymath.pyx
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+cdef extern from "mymath.h":
+    double sinc(double)
+
+def call_sinc(x):
+    return sinc(x)

diff --git a/Demos/libraries/mymath.c b/Demos/libraries/mymath.c
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+++ b/Demos/libraries/mymath.c
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+#include "math.h"
+
+double sinc(double x) {
+    return x == 0 ? 1 : sin(x)/x;
+}
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diff --git a/Demos/libraries/mymath.h b/Demos/libraries/mymath.h
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+++ b/Demos/libraries/mymath.h
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+double sinc(double);

diff --git a/Demos/libraries/setup.py b/Demos/libraries/setup.py
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+import os
+
+from distutils.core import setup
+from distutils.extension import Extension
+from Cython.Distutils import build_ext
+
+
+# For demo purposes, we build our own tiny library.
+try:
+    print "building libmymath.a"
+    assert os.system("gcc -c mymath.c -o mymath.o") == 0
+    assert os.system("ar rcs libmymath.a mymath.o") == 0
+except:
+    if not os.path.exists("libmymath.a"):
+        print "Error building external library, please create libmymath.a manually."
+        sys.exit(1)
+
+# Here is how to use the library built above. 
+ext_modules=[ 
+    Extension("call_mymath",
+              sources = ["call_mymath.pyx"],
+              include_dirs = [os.getcwd()],  # path to .h file(s)
+              library_dirs = [os.getcwd()],  # path to .a or .so file(s)
+              libraries = ['mymath'])
+]
+
+setup(
+  name = 'Demos',
+  cmdclass = {'build_ext': build_ext},
+  ext_modules = ext_modules,
+)