cbindgen

A project for generating C bindings from Rust code (by mozilla)

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  • Hello World in Go From Rust
    2 projects | dev.to | 7 Jan 2024
    Golang uses cgo to communicate with external C libraries and Rust uses FFI (Foreign function interfaces) to export C functions. Additionally, a library for automatically generating bindings can be used to generate the header files (.h). In our case, we'll only be exporting two C functions, so using cbindgen is overkill but we'll use it regardless because why not?  Firstly, we'll write the rust functions we want to export. We'll start by creating a new rust library:
  • Ask HN: Automating multi-lang communication with a meta programming language
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 11 Oct 2023
    [1]: https://github.com/mozilla/cbindgen
  • Nim v2.0 Released
    49 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 1 Aug 2023
    As a 2-step approach, you could also probably use https://github.com/mozilla/cbindgen and then Nim's native C FFI.
  • ffizz: Build a Beautiful C API in Rust
    6 projects | dev.to | 20 Jun 2023
    The tooling for the first kind -- calling Rust from another language -- is a bit less developed, and tends to rely on code generation that doesn't necessarily produce a natural C API. cbindgen, uniffi, cxx, and Diplomat all take this course.
  • How can I use rust libraries in zig/C
    2 projects | /r/rust | 16 Apr 2023
    There's also cbindgen for automating the generation of C headers once you've got your code in the right shape and you'll also want to read the Rustonomicon.
  • C Strings and my slow descent to madness
    3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 6 Apr 2023
    You can backport Rust standard library to C using https://github.com/eqrion/cbindgen .
  • Rust FFI and cbindgen: Integrating Embedded Rust Code in C
    2 projects | dev.to | 23 Jan 2023
    Later we'll see what cbindgen essentially does is receive a configuration and a Rust library and then spit out a C header (.h) file. One might think that what cbindgen is doing might not be that special and can be done by hand. In which some cases that might be true if the project is simple enough. Though additionally as the cbindgen documentation states:
  • Nautilus just fucked me. (Gnome paper cuts)
    3 projects | /r/linux | 14 Dec 2022
    Fuck it, I'll take the bait. Rust allows for amazing C interop by allowing for exporting of C types as a dynamic library, like C. Unlike C, this still allows for Rust's advanced checking at compile time. librsvg is one such library that is being used in the GTK ecosystem that is also almost completely Rust. You can use tools like cbindgen to generate C bindings.
  • Hey Rustaceans! Got a question? Ask here! (47/2022)!
    10 projects | /r/rust | 21 Nov 2022
    Or alternatively cbindgen to create the header file from the Rust source.
  • 7 ways to pass a string between 🦀 Rust and C
    3 projects | dev.to | 30 Jul 2022
    The easiest way to obtain the headers for the rust code is to use the cbingen library.
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