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glibc-abi-tool
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To Save C, We Must Save ABI
Operating systems already do language-independent ABI files: https://github.com/marlersoft/win32json so the only thing missing is symbol versioning, which already has solutions: https://github.com/ziglang/glibc-abi-tool
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Using Zig as Cross Platform C Toolchain
> enabling you to target any version of glibc out of the box by building symbol mappings: https://github.com/ziglang/glibc-abi-tool/
This would be huge. How can I tell zig cc to use a particular glibc version though?
- The Atrocities of COM win32 headers
- Show HN: A 166 KB file for cross compiling glibc for any version, any target
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Hacker News top posts: Dec 13, 2021
Show HN: A 166 KB file for cross compiling glibc for any version, any target\ (5 comments)
win32metadata
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Hey Rustaceans! Got a question? Ask here (18/2023)!
As /u/huellenoperator notes, that this needs a pointer to a mutable string comes straight from microsoft through win32metadata. Maybe it's a mistake on Microsoft's side, but if it's not you're taking big risks.
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Kernel Headers for Windows could soon make it into windows-rs
Microsoft offers official "bindings" to Win32 APIs through win32metadata. However, until recently, it did not include metadata for kernel-level functions or WDK. In early 2021, an issue was raised through windows-rs regarding this limitation, but progress was slow until now. Microsoft has finally released official metadata for WDK, which can be found on the wdkmetadata repository. The latest comment on the issue thread can be found here:
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winreader: read memory from other programs
for win32metadata's kernel api tracking issue, https://github.com/microsoft/win32metadata/issues/401
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Best windows stubs
Any examples? Since the API bindings in windows-sys are generated from the metadata generated from official Windows SDK headers I'd not expect to see this kind of difference.
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can we be free of c?
You might also look at this project: https://github.com/microsoft/win32metadata
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Is it time to retire C and C++ for Rust in new programs?
There is still the occasional incredibly subtle link time fuckery in Rust.
https://github.com/microsoft/win32metadata/issues/1274
"Minor" semver updates to crates breaking things via e.g. unexpected MSRV bumps is pretty common too, with some resulting bitrot. That said, I agree with you that things in Rust are at least better. Imperfect, but better.
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Are there any Windows-centric perks of using C# that other non-Microsoft languages simply can't offer (or at least don't out of the box)?
Win32 is available as metadata to enable adoption in as many languages as possible. Are there some things missing? Yes. The Microsoft team acknowledges that and encourages asking for the things you need so they can add them to the metadata.
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Using Windows API in Julia?
It might be interesting to have bindings generated for the entirety of Win32 API through https://github.com/microsoft/win32metadata
- Would std code for Windows ever use the windows crate by Microsoft?
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The Atrocities of COM win32 headers
Hi JB! Funny to cross paths with you in this context. I don't know if you remember me but I was a rookie programmer who got the pleasure of joining the VideoLan Conference in Dublin back in 2014, and then Paris the next year, and you were very kind to me.
The GitHub issue title here is unfortunately misleading. I have renamed it to "ideas to improve windows header files and libc". Also, I hope it is clear that I rebutted the points made by the OP, because I completely agree with your summary that the mingw-w64 people are skilled, nice and very clever and think about all use cases.
If any drive-by HN readers work at Microsoft, please help us with this issue: https://github.com/microsoft/win32metadata/issues/766
What are some alternatives?
MSYS2-packages - Package scripts for MSYS2.
rust-bindgen - Automatically generates Rust FFI bindings to C (and some C++) libraries.
llvm-mingw - An LLVM/Clang/LLD based mingw-w64 toolchain
JNA - Java Native Access
zig - General-purpose programming language and toolchain for maintaining robust, optimal, and reusable software.
go - The Go programming language
mingw-w64 - (Unofficial) Mirror of mingw-w64-code
winapi - Windows API declarations without <windows.h>, for internal Boost use.
weird - Generative art in Common Lisp
sysroot - Files for cross-compilation
panama-foreign - https://openjdk.org/projects/panama