Resources

Tooling

Bindgen is the most popular and mature tool and is maintained by the Rust project. It is used to create bindings for C code (and some C++) in Rust code. Cbindgen can be used to create C bindings to Rust code. The other tools below are for C++ interop; cxx is the current favourite tool with the community, but is not suitable for all use cases.

• bindgen
• cbindgen
• cxx, repo
• autocxx (Google tool for 'integrating cxx with bindgen')
• diplomat
• rust-cpp (cpp! macro)
• flapigen (formerly Swig)
• cxx-async
• ABI Cafe for comparing the output of compilers for ABI compatibility
• crubit experimental C++ interop from Chrome folk

You may want to use COM/WinRT for inter-language interaction, the best Rust support for COM and WinRT is in windows-rs.

Documentation

• Nomicon chapter
• Unofficial FFI guide
• FFI omnibus
• Firefox docs for C++ interop
• FFI idioms and patterns
• Chrome docs for C++ interop
• FFI chapter in ANSSI-FR Secure Rust Guidelines

Unsafe programming

Resources for learning about unsafe programming:

• Chapter in The Book.
• Nomicon
• Unsafe code guidelines
  • rendered
  • repo
  • issues
• Ralf's thesis
• Stacked borrows paper
• GhostCell paper
• Ralf's blog
• Gankra's thesis
• Gankra's blog
• MIRI repo