cargo-c common questions

• cargo-c

  2 447 8.4 Rust

  build and install C-compatible libraries

  I'm writing this to explain some of the problems cargo-c solves and hopefully give few pointers since the README containing all the documentation maybe grew to be fairly big.

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• cbindgen

  21 2,368 7.9 Rust

  A project for generating C bindings from Rust code

  

  To not generate the header using cbindgen, it will copy the header {crate name}.h from the assets/ directory.

• meson

  112 5,537 9.8 Python

  The Meson Build System

  

  With cargo-c I try to use the best practices to support as many platform as possible, trying to stay in sync with what meson does. Sadly what is conceptually trivial, installing a package, has lots of details that are platform-specific.

• gentoo

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  Official Gentoo ebuild repository (by gentoo-mirror)

  

  When I notice some rust software sporting a C-API that I'd consider packaging in Gentoo I tend to provide a patch to add the few metadata entries needed to have cargo-c do all the work, some other people politely ask if cargo-c is supported and sometimes it is an uphill battle usually because the project maintainer doesn't know the required effort is minimum or is not aware setting crate-type=cdylib is not enough.

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