vswhere
win32metadata
vswhere | win32metadata | |
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5 | 27 | |
899 | 1,281 | |
0.8% | 0.5% | |
4.5 | 0.0 | |
6 days ago | 4 days ago | |
C++ | C++ | |
MIT License | GNU General Public License v3.0 or later |
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vswhere
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how does this work?
But often maintainers also upload Releases with builds of their software, e.g. like here: https://github.com/microsoft/vswhere/releases
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Extending Python with Rust
Finding where & how to use an installed VS instance (or selecting one) in automated tooling is solved by the criminally unknown, MIT licensed, MS supported, redistributable, vswhere tool: https://github.com/microsoft/vswhere
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microsoft_craziness.h (2018)
/ // This file was about 400 lines before we started adding these comments. // You might think that's way too much code to do something as simple // as finding a few library and executable paths. I agree. However, // Microsoft's own solution to this problem, called "vswhere", is a // mere EIGHT THOUSAND LINE PROGRAM, spread across 70 files, // that they posted to github unironically. // // I am not making this up: https://github.com/Microsoft/vswhere
- Microsoft_craziness.h
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?
fastplotlib - Next-gen fast plotting library running on WGPU using the pygfx rendering engine
rust-bindgen - Automatically generates Rust FFI bindings to C (and some C++) libraries.
zig - General-purpose programming language and toolchain for maintaining robust, optimal, and reusable software.
JNA - Java Native Access
graphics_wgpu
go - The Go programming language
pygfx - A python render engine running on wgpu.
winapi - Windows API declarations without <windows.h>, for internal Boost use.
tundra - Tundra is a code build system that tries to be accurate and fast for incremental builds
builder - Simple build system for Visual C++
panama-foreign - https://openjdk.org/projects/panama