rust-bindgen VS surrealdb

Rust supports two kinds of FFI: calling into Rust from another language; and calling into another language from Rust. Most of the thought and tooling that exists right now is organized around the second kind. For example, bindgen is a popular tool that generates useful Rust wrappers from a C or C++ header file.

I have looked into bindgen, but found that it would not be feasible due to OMPL not having a C API, just C++.

Yes! Are you running LLVM version 16.0.0 or newer, by any chance? I believe this is an issue with some builds of bindgen with newer versions of LLVM. See https://github.com/rust-lang/rust-bindgen/issues/2488

On native, you have to define a C API, probably using a header file. Even if both sides are implemented in Rust, they have to speak that C API (documentation).

Bindgen has some functionality for direct talk to C++ https://github.com/rust-lang/rust-bindgen

I am trying to use rust-bindgen (https://github.com/rust-lang/rust-bindgen) to link a static C library (say `libexample.a`) which is compiled in a separate project with CMake. The `libexample.a` depends on other libraries (for example `libcurl.a`) installed on the system.

It looks like the guy you're replying too was kind of an ass, but I do want to point out for anyone else reading that that's not actually that much of a technical limitation: rust code can natively call C code. The main thing you need is a translation of the C library's header file so rustc knows what C functions and structs exist, and that can be automatically generated with bindgen.

It's quite the different approach, but you could consider using bindgen instead.

Use bindgen or CXX to create Rust bindings for the C or C++ libraries.

In this article, I have shared how I have built a simple task-tracking full-stack application using NextJS and SurrealDB.

In this article, I'll show you how you can create a binary package for your desired program. I wanted to download the SurrealDB package, but the package on nix was a source package, meaning that I had to spend over 50 minutes waiting for a stupid package to compile.

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SurrealDB comes with a LIVE SELECT statement that allows you to listen for creations, updates and deletions to specific records you are interested in or entire tables. While you could already take advantage of this powerful feature with our JavaScript SDK or WebSockets, the Rust SDK added an API for it in v1.1.0. ​ The Rust API for live queries builds on top of the already existing select method by simply adding a live method which converts the select query into a live select one. It works seamlessly with our current API, so you can use it with single records, a range of records, or entire tables. Unlike the normal select method which returns either a single result or a vector of results, it returns a stream of notifications. This works for the WebSocket engine and the local ones (the key value stores you can embed in your app). The only engine not yet supported is the HTTP one. ​ In this article, we show some examples of running live queries via the Rust SDK. We will skip imports for brevity but your IDE and/or the Rust compiler should give you the correct suggestions. Please refer to this example in our repo for a full, working example. ​

1.0 version but https://github.com/surrealdb/surrealdb/issues/1548 is still open :)

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