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cxx
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Rust is having a positive effect in C/C++
There are cxx and autocxx, what else do you propose to do?
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Interoperability: Swift’s Super Power
I would like to see a comparison of how this compares to Rust. In terms of interoperability it has Cxx (https://cxx.rs) to offer safe bindings to C++ but also has great support for Android, Linux and many other systems. You don't even need to hack together Windows bindings (as explained in the blog post) because Microsoft offers official bindings (https://crates.io/crates/windows). I'm not sure if I'd call it a superpower if any potential interoperability has to be written to be used (compared to it already being available). Or rather, in comparison to what is interoperability a Swift superpower? Certainly not C++ or C which can be used in a far wider set of targets.
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Rust Cryptography Should Be Written in Rust
We selected Qt as a cross-platform solution. The C++/Rust interface is the clunkiest and ugliest part of the application, and rather complex because some state is shared between several windows in the GUI and several threads in the backend, and any component might modify that state at any time, and updates have to be transmitted to the other components without introducing inconsistencies. Using cxx [1] helped a little, though.
The project began in 2020, and I'm not sure what I'd choose as a GUI framework today – definitely not Qt Widgets, though.
[1] https://cxx.rs/
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Link a C static library to rust cargo project
If the build process for the C library isn't too involved I recommend using cxx bridge (https://cxx.rs/) and letting cargo handle the build and linking. cxx basically allows you to describe the bidirectional interface (although it sounds like you only need 1 direction, which is fine too) in Rust code and it provides a "good enough" API for compiling C code inside the build.rs file.
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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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Best practices in creating a Rust API for a C++ library? Seeking advice from those who've done it before.
I would like to utilize OMPL's functionality in Rust code, so I want to call into OMPL C++ code somehow in Rust. I've seen two (non-mutually-exclusive) options so far: - rust-cpp, which allows you to write C++ code in Rust within the cpp!() macro. - cxx, which allows you to define both sides of the FFI boundary manually (as opposed to bindgen's automatic generation).
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Hey Rustaceans! Got a question? Ask here (20/2023)!
I'm not sure how to do this in cxx; issues like https://github.com/dtolnay/cxx/issues/447 suggest that this isn't settled yet?
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Hello r/Rust! We are Meta Engineers who created the Open Source Buck2 Build System! Ask us anything! [Mod approved]
I use non-vendored dependencies for the Buck build in https://github.com/dtolnay/cxx.
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Microsoft is rewriting core Windows libraries in Rust
There's also the cpp and cxx crates for doing C++/Rust interop, but they probably aren't appropriate to use in all cases. The C ABI is definitely the safest way to go unless you're really trying to marry Rust and C++ code bases, not just writing library bindings.
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How can I use rust libraries in C++
There's also cxx (can't vouch for it personally but it claims to make things a lot easier) https://github.com/dtolnay/cxx
swift-bridge
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macOS Apps in Rust
A bit late, but `swift-bridge` (https://github.com/chinedufn/swift-bridge) does this intelligently, and is probably what you're looking for.
- swift-bridge 0.1.37 supports passing `Box<dyn FnOnce(A, B) -> C>` from Rust to Swift
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Rust playground on iOS
4) Another route that I tried is to develop a simple terminal app using SwiftUI with a Xcode project to build that app + link against a Rust library compiled for iOS with the actual logic. I used swift-bridge for this and it works really well, to the point where I have a custom logger that you can simply use the print stuff to SwiftUI from Rust using the log crate. Once I have a bit more time, I will probably try figuring out how to clean this up a bit more.
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Hey Rustaceans! Got a question? Ask here! (28/2022)!
Since Swift is your first target, I might recommend swift-bridge which can generate bindings for Rust async fns that Swift can call directly.
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What's everyone working on this week (18/2022)?
I'm working on getting my GUI crate (https://github.com/audulus/rui) working on iOS (https://github.com/audulus/rui-ios). Multitouch will be fun. Shout out to the excellent work in swift-bridge: https://github.com/chinedufn/swift-bridge.
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swift-bridge: type-safe interop between Swift and Rust
So that class SwiftString was actually unused. I've removed it here https://github.com/chinedufn/swift-bridge/pull/33 .
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swift-bridge now supports calling async Rust functions from Swift
Here's an example of a Rust library that exposes an async function that uses reqwest to make an API call, and a main.swift that calls that async function.
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Any good tutorials/examples on using a Rust library in Swift code for multiple targets?
Have you tried Swift Bridge? https://github.com/chinedufn/swift-bridge
- Swift-bridge: Call Rust from Swift and vice versa
What are some alternatives?
cbindgen - A project for generating C bindings from Rust code
swift - The Swift Programming Language
rust-bindgen - Automatically generates Rust FFI bindings to C (and some C++) libraries.
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autocxx - Tool for safe ergonomic Rust/C++ interop driven from existing C++ headers
rust - Empowering everyone to build reliable and efficient software.
uniffi-rs - a multi-language bindings generator for rust
config-rs - ⚙️ Layered configuration system for Rust applications (with strong support for 12-factor applications).
rust-cpp - Embed C++ directly inside your rust code!
rui - Declarative Rust UI library
ritual - Use C++ libraries from Rust
log - Logging implementation for Rust