cglue
Rust ABI safe code generator (by h33p)
abi_stable_crates
Rust-to-Rust ffi,ffi-safe equivalents of std types,and creating libraries loaded at startup. (by rodrimati1992)
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5.7 | 4.9 | |
22 days ago | 7 months ago | |
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MIT License | Apache License 2.0 |
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cglue
Posts with mentions or reviews of cglue.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-04-23.
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Any sort of plugin engine with dynamic load ability and any limitations?
Shameless plug - you may want to check out cglue, which lets you mix and match rust versions, and even implement plugins in other languages like C++: https://github.com/h33p/cglue
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GATs in dynamic traits - CGlue 0.2.12 Release
You can grab CGlue from my GitHub.
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Plugins in Rust: Wrapping Up
I honestly wouldn't say that much has changed during this year. I do see some progress on new libraries like xlang_abi, safer_ffi or cglue, but it's still too early to know, and existing ones like abi_stable move quite slowly.
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Designing a Rust -> Rust plugin system
You might wanna take a look at cglue: https://github.com/h33p/cglue
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Exploring System76's New Rust Based Desktop Environment
Importing Rust is the same process as you'd use to import a C library, but there's a lot of people actively invested in this area so there's likely already automated tooling of some sort. Google uses https://cxx.rs for automating C++ bindings to Rust libraries, and lately there's been experiments like cglue to automate C bindings.
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CGlue 0.2.4 Is Out For Easier Trait ABI Safety
I'm proud to announce one final CGlue release for this year, the highlight being ability to use layout_checks feature on non-git builds!
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CGlue 0.2 is out! Dynamically loadable traits in Rust, C and C++
I have just added pre-generated headers, they are now on the repo. Yup, certainly not the cleanest, some whitespaces need fixing, but it wasn't the highest priority as it didn't affect functionality.
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What are the options of distributing a closed-source library in Rust?
Depending on how big your API surface is (and how trait heavy it is), you may want to look into [shameless_plug] automatically generating it with cglue. That's what we did for memflow. [/shameless_plug] It's goals are not much different from abi_stable (in fact, rather a small subset of it focused on traits), but does create C-compatible code.
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Plugins in Rust: Diving into Dynamic Loading | nullderef.com
It seems like we are trying to solve roughly the same problems when it comes to loading plugins and keeping it all ABI safe. Might be worth checking out CGlue (full disclosure: it's my project). While I do not have async trait support, it would be a really interesting challenge to tackle. The ultimate goal for the project is to be a dead simple code generator that would even allow to write plugins in C/C++, and I currently have sweeping changes underway to get it there.
abi_stable_crates
Posts with mentions or reviews of abi_stable_crates.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-06-09.
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how can I add dynamic loading to do "plugins" for my Rust app?
I've used abi_stable_crates
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Announcing `stabby`: a stable ABI for Rust with niche optimizations and much more!
It's possible, I even made a PR for closures a few months ago. However, for some odd reason the CI failed to build it, and months later I tried to update my PR only to find that master didn't build anymore on my machine.
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CGlue 0.2 is out! Dynamically loadable traits in Rust, C and C++
Integration with /u/azure1992's abi_stable crate for API/ABI mismatch checking (layout_checks feature). Note that CGlue will not work with crates.io version just yet, as a certain patch needs to be published first. But in the meantime, this can be solved by specifying the upstream repo in cargo patch section.
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What are the options of distributing a closed-source library in Rust?
There’s a crate for that: abi_stable
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Plugin based architecture in Rust
Unfortunately, just before publishing this article I found out, that Rust does not guarante a stable ABI, not even between two separate runs of the compiler with the same rustc version. This measn that plugins might suddenly not be compatible anymore for no obvious reasons. Even though I never experienced any problems during development (neither on windows, linux nor mac), I'd recommend you to just share datastructures with #[repr(C)] attribute or use types from abi_stable_crates. A stable ABI will be shipped with minfac:0.0.2, as datastructures in minfac:0.0.1 don't have the #[repr(C)] attribute yet. A discussion about having a stable Rust ABI can be found in the internals forum. If anybody knows, why compiling with the compiler option -C prefer-dynamic is supported, I'd be interested to know, as I can't see how this problem is solved there.
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Rust doesn’t support default function arguments. Or does it?
Here’s abi_stable_crates, enabling Rust API to be exported with a stable ABI
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Is there a way to build a plugin system for rust code with dynamic libraries ?
This crate may also be of interest: https://github.com/rodrimati1992/abi_stable_crates/
What are some alternatives?
When comparing cglue and abi_stable_crates you can also consider the following projects:
libcosmic - WIP library for COSMIC applications
interoptopus - The polyglot bindings generator for your library (C#, C, Python, …) 🐙
minfac - Lightweight Inversion Of Control
memflow - physical memory introspection framework
windows-drivers - Windows Drivers for System76 Open Firmware Machines
rust-default-arguments-benchmark - A simple benchmark to evaluate the performance impact of using structs that implement Default as function arguments.
cbindgen - A project for generating C bindings from Rust code
ctti - Rust compile-time type information experiment
safer_ffi - Write safer FFI code in Rust without polluting it with unsafe code
xi-editor - A modern editor with a backend written in Rust.
cglue vs libcosmic
abi_stable_crates vs interoptopus
cglue vs interoptopus
abi_stable_crates vs minfac
cglue vs memflow
abi_stable_crates vs memflow
cglue vs windows-drivers
abi_stable_crates vs rust-default-arguments-benchmark
cglue vs cbindgen
abi_stable_crates vs ctti
cglue vs safer_ffi
abi_stable_crates vs xi-editor