cbindgen
A project for generating C bindings from Rust code (by mozilla)
rusty-cheddar
A Rust crate for automatically generating C header files from Rust source file. (by Sean1708)
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| cbindgen | rusty-cheddar | |
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| 19 | - | |
| 2,189 | 189 | |
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| 7.5 | 0.0 | |
| 7 days ago | almost 6 years ago | |
| Rust | Rust | |
| Mozilla Public License 2.0 | MIT License |
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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
cbindgen
Posts with mentions or reviews of cbindgen.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-01-07.
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Hello World in Go From Rust
Golang uses cgo to communicate with external C libraries and Rust uses FFI (Foreign function interfaces) to export C functions. Additionally, a library for automatically generating bindings can be used to generate the header files (.h). In our case, we'll only be exporting two C functions, so using cbindgen is overkill but we'll use it regardless because why not? Firstly, we'll write the rust functions we want to export. We'll start by creating a new rust library:
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Ask HN: Automating multi-lang communication with a meta programming language
[1]: https://github.com/mozilla/cbindgen
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Nim v2.0 Released
As a 2-step approach, you could also probably use https://github.com/mozilla/cbindgen and then Nim's native C FFI.
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ffizz: Build a Beautiful C API in Rust
The tooling for the first kind -- calling Rust from another language -- is a bit less developed, and tends to rely on code generation that doesn't necessarily produce a natural C API. cbindgen, uniffi, cxx, and Diplomat all take this course.
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How can I use rust libraries in zig/C
There's also cbindgen for automating the generation of C headers once you've got your code in the right shape and you'll also want to read the Rustonomicon.
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C Strings and my slow descent to madness
You can backport Rust standard library to C using https://github.com/eqrion/cbindgen .
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Rust FFI and cbindgen: Integrating Embedded Rust Code in C
Later we'll see what cbindgen essentially does is receive a configuration and a Rust library and then spit out a C header (.h) file. One might think that what cbindgen is doing might not be that special and can be done by hand. In which some cases that might be true if the project is simple enough. Though additionally as the cbindgen documentation states:
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Nautilus just fucked me. (Gnome paper cuts)
Fuck it, I'll take the bait. Rust allows for amazing C interop by allowing for exporting of C types as a dynamic library, like C. Unlike C, this still allows for Rust's advanced checking at compile time. librsvg is one such library that is being used in the GTK ecosystem that is also almost completely Rust. You can use tools like cbindgen to generate C bindings.
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Hey Rustaceans! Got a question? Ask here! (47/2022)!
Or alternatively cbindgen to create the header file from the Rust source.
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7 ways to pass a string between 🦀 Rust and C
The easiest way to obtain the headers for the rust code is to use the cbingen library.
rusty-cheddar
Posts with mentions or reviews of rusty-cheddar.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects.
We haven't tracked posts mentioning rusty-cheddar yet.
Tracking mentions began in Dec 2020.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing cbindgen and rusty-cheddar you can also consider the following projects:
rust-bindgen - THIS CRATE IS DEPRECATED, please use https://github.com/servo/rust-bindgen.
cxx - Safe interop between Rust and C++
rst - The open source design documentation tool for everybody [Moved to: https://github.com/vitiral/artifact]
flutter_rust_bridge - Flutter/Dart <-> Rust binding generator, feature-rich, but seamless and simple.
rusty-tags - Create ctags/etags for a cargo project
tch-rs - Rust bindings for the C++ api of PyTorch.
neon - Rust bindings for writing safe and fast native Node.js modules.
Module Linker - browse modules by clicking directly on "import" statements on GitHub
Clippy - A bunch of lints to catch common mistakes and improve your Rust code. Book: https://doc.rust-lang.org/clippy/
jni-rs - Rust bindings to the Java Native Interface — JNI
Rustup - The Rust toolchain installer