Ways to automate this?

[IngwiePhoenix]

Looking at the objects example, I see that most of those functions are actually very generic as they simply check if the arguments passed are NULL or not. So would it be possible to automatically wrap a struct and implementation like this?

(Mind you, I am new to rust and come from c/c++...)

[jhg]

I'm sorry it's a very late reply, I found this today. Also sorry if it could look spam, but maybe it's what you are looking, @IngwiePhoenix: opaque-pointer crate.

The crate has tests and is documented. It exposes generic functions. Of course, almost functions are unsafe. It's what I use when I need create a static library to be used from C/C++ (and also cbindgen crate).

[IngwiePhoenix]

Thank you for the ping! Yeah I was not expecting that. But still appreciate it nevertheless. I'll check it out later.

Merry christmas btw. :)

[GandelXIV]

Any updates on this? I have some ideas for automating this, but would like to see if anyone has also been doing something of this sort.

[jhg]

Sorry in advance if it's not the place to talk about it.

@GandelXIV could you explain the ideas for automating this? I was thinking about a derive trait.

[GandelXIV]

Sorry in advance if it's not the place to talk about it.

@GandelXIV could you explain the ideas for automating this? I was thinking about a derive trait.

My idea was rather making a CLI tool that would generate C bindings and headers for a givens crate public mumbers. This way, anyone could just pull a library from crates.io and integrate it into their project.