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The CXX code generator for constructing and compiling C++ code.

This is intended to be used from Cargo build scripts to execute CXX's C++ code generator, set up any additional compiler flags depending on the use case, and make the C++ compiler invocation.


Example

Example of a canonical Cargo build script that builds a CXX bridge:

// build.rs

fn main() {
    cxx_build::bridge("src/main.rs")
        .file("src/demo.cc")
        .std("c++11")
        .compile("cxxbridge-demo");

    println!("cargo:rerun-if-changed=src/main.rs");
    println!("cargo:rerun-if-changed=src/demo.cc");
    println!("cargo:rerun-if-changed=include/demo.h");
}

A runnable working setup with this build script is shown in the demo directory of https://github.com/dtolnay/cxx.


Alternatives

For use in non-Cargo builds like Bazel or Buck, CXX provides an alternate way of invoking the C++ code generator as a standalone command line tool. The tool is packaged as the cxxbridge-cmd crate.

$ cargo install cxxbridge-cmd  # or build it from the repo

$ cxxbridge src/main.rs --header > path/to/mybridge.h
$ cxxbridge src/main.rs > path/to/mybridge.cc

Dependencies

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