cglue
Rust ABI safe code generator (by h33p)
safer_ffi
Write safer FFI code in Rust without polluting it with unsafe code (by getditto)
| cglue | safer_ffi | |
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| 10 | 4 | |
| 168 | 828 | |
| - | 1.7% | |
| 5.7 | 7.7 | |
| 22 days ago | 27 days ago | |
| Rust | Rust | |
| MIT License | 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.
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.
safer_ffi
Posts with mentions or reviews of safer_ffi.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-01-21.
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The way integrate Rust into Nim
Rust also has a library called safer_ffi that makes FFI easier, and I tried to use that, but the library seems to be immature, and I could not get arguments in Rust functions. If this library can be used properly, it will be possible to output C header files from Rust functions and automatically generate Nim interface functions from C header files using c2nim. We look forward to further development of this feature.
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How would I connect renderer coded in C and logic coded in rust?
Bindgen is good for calling C from rust. If you want to call rust from C though, you should use safer-ffi
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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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Idea for project: safe-ffi
A project like this does exist! https://github.com/getditto/safer_ffi
What are some alternatives?
When comparing cglue and safer_ffi you can also consider the following projects:
libcosmic - WIP library for COSMIC applications
dl_api - The easiest, simplest and safest way to load dynamic (shared object) libraries from Rust!
interoptopus - The polyglot bindings generator for your library (C#, C, Python, …) 🐙
rust-sdl2 - SDL2 bindings for Rust
memflow - physical memory introspection framework
interface-types
windows-drivers - Windows Drivers for System76 Open Firmware Machines
component-model - Repository for design and specification of the Component Model
cbindgen - A project for generating C bindings from Rust code
abi_stable_crates - Rust-to-Rust ffi,ffi-safe equivalents of std types,and creating libraries loaded at startup.
cosmic-comp - Compositor for the COSMIC desktop environment
nullderef.com - Source code for NullDeref, my personal blog