Genny – Generate Nim library bindings for many languages

• genny

  5 218 3.3 Nim

  Generate a shared library and bindings for many languages. (by treeform)

• c2nim

  7 490 4.1 Nim

  c2nim is a tool to translate Ansi C code to Nim. The output is human-readable Nim code that is meant to be tweaked by hand before and after the translation process.

  

Now if only a full binding generator for C and C++ headers to Nim was done, the language would really be cooking!

"What do you mean, Nim has two of these already?"

Yeah, I know, and -- not to hurt anyone's feelings -- but: they kind of suck. And there's no way I see them able to be extended to do the job fully, based on the way they're currently built.

Those are some bold claims to make!

So before I get stoned to death (no offense to the authors, I am grateful that they exist and have used them both) let me attempt an explanation and back up these statements.

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To start off, the two tools available are "c2nim" and "nimterop". c2nim is a Nim official library, while nimterop is a community library.

  https://github.com/nim-lang/c2nim

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• nimterop

  3 350 1.5 Nim

  Nimterop is a Nim package that aims to make C/C++ interop seamless

  

https://github.com/nimterop/nimterop

• ClangSharp

  5 855 8.1 C#

  Clang bindings for .NET written in C#

  

I've found this to be true, with the exception that a few people have taken to "augmenting" libclang with extra bindings to libTooling functions or other C++-only methods.

Most notably is Tanner Gooding & Co's "libClangSharp" from the Microsoft "ClangSharp" project, and PathogenDavid's "Biohazrd" libraries (which again are a sort of enhanced fork based on ClangSharp):

  https://github.com/microsoft/ClangSharp  # See "/sources/libClangSharp"

• Biohazrd

  1 58 0.0 C#

  A framework for automatically generating binding wrappers for C/C++ libraries

  

https://github.com/InfectedLibraries/Biohazrd

• nimporter

  11 808 4.3 Python

  Compile Nim Extensions for Python On Import!

For the specific case of Python executing Nim code you might be interested in [nimporter](https://github.com/Pebaz/nimporter) instead. Genny would definitely work for you as well, but it seems to be more geared towards creating libraries in Nim that can be imported by multiple languages.

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