rust-macios VS gir

Compare rust-macios vs gir and see what are their differences.

rust-macios

Rust bindings to frameworks made by Apple (by a-isaiahharvey)

gir

Tool to generate rust bindings and user API for glib-based libraries (by gtk-rs)
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rust-macios gir
1 1
8 221
- 2.3%
9.0 8.5
about 1 year ago 3 days ago
Rust Rust
MIT License MIT License
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rust-macios

Posts with mentions or reviews of rust-macios. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-05-20.

gir

Posts with mentions or reviews of gir. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects.
  • Including C code that requires glib 2?
    1 project | /r/rust | 17 Jun 2022
    bindgen is not ideal for generating bindings to GLib/GObject-based libraries. You probably want to take a look at https://github.com/gtk-rs/gir, which is used to generate the GTK/GStreamer/etc bindings.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing rust-macios and gir you can also consider the following projects:

gstreamer-rs - GStreamer bindings for Rust - This repository moved to https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/gstreamer/gstreamer-rs

eyedropper - Pick and format colors, built with GTK, libadwaita and Rust

xbase - Develop Apple software products within your favorite editor.

gtk4.cr - GTK4 bindings for Crystal

rusqlite - Ergonomic bindings to SQLite for Rust

timer-for-harvest - Harvest time tracking client implemented using GTK and Rust

gobject-example-rs - Example for exporting a GObject/C API from Rust

node-gtk - GTK+ bindings for NodeJS (via GObject introspection)

wasm-bindgen - Facilitating high-level interactions between Wasm modules and JavaScript