#header #macro #translation #parser #generate #definition #lib

cmacros

Rust lib for parsing macros from C header files and assisting with translation to Rust code

1 unstable release

Uses old Rust 2015

0.1.0 Jun 20, 2015

#170 in #translation

MIT license

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rust-cmacros

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Rust library to assist with parsing and translating #define macro definitions from C header files to corresponding Rust code for use with bindings to external libraries.

Intro

To use libraries with a C interface from Rust, rust-bindgen can be used to generate Rust bindings automatically. It does not translate constants or functions defined as macros in C headers to Rust code however.

rust-cmacros is a simple and fairly dumb library which helps to fill this gap.

It has two basic functions:

  • extract_macros() parses the source of a C header file and extracts C macro definitions
  • generate_rust_src() takes as input a set of extracted macros and a translator function and generates Rust code.

lib.rs:

Library providing functions to assist with parsing and translating '#define' macro definitions from C header files to corresponding Rust code for use with bindings to external libraries.

Dependencies

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