Calling C code from Rust

• rust_c_ffi

  1 2 0.0 Rust

  An example on how to call C code from Rust

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• rust-bindgen

  50 4,070 8.9 Rust

  Automatically generates Rust FFI bindings to C (and some C++) libraries.

  

So far we manually wrote interface to interact with C. But this approach has some drawbacks. Consider real case scenario where each header file has lots of structure definitions, function declarations, inline functions etc. As well as writing interfaces manually is tedious and error prone. But luckily for us there is a tool called bindgen which can perform these conversions automatically.

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• cc-rs

  8 1,729 9.0 Rust

  Rust library for build scripts to compile C/C++ code into a Rust library

  

It might be quite tedious to compile static library manually every time we make changes in C code. The better solution is to instead utilize the cc crate, which provides an idiomatic Rust interface to the compiler provided by the host.

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