Crust of Rust: Build Scripts and Foreign-Function Interfaces (FFI)

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This time we go over Cargo build scripts and Rust foreign-function interfaces, including looking at some widely used *-sys crates. We also wrote our own bindings against the libsodium C library: https://doc.libsodium.org/. You can find the Cargo book entry for build scripts at https://doc.rust-lang.org/cargo/reference/build-scripts.html, and the nomicon entry for ffi at https://doc.rust-lang.org/nomicon/ffi.html.

Live version with chat: https://youtu.be/pSTPJ39LsEU

0:00:00 Introduction
0:02:58 libsodium
0:04:28 Build scripts
0:07:00 OUT_DIR
0:18:01 cargo directives
0:34:09 Build script sandboxing
0:36:36 libgit2-sys
0:54:31 bindgen
1:08:08 libssh2-sys
1:14:38 openssl-sys
1:19:50 libsodium-sys
1:21:29 Writing our own libsodium-sys
1:40:11 Wrapping crypto_generichash
2:02:57 Reverse FFI
2:09:30 autocfg
2:12:14 cbindgen and cxx

The Rustacean Station Discord server is at https://discord.gg/RJdqQ9n.



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rust
live-coding
ffi
build scripts
build.rs
foreign-function interfaces