Rust Bindgen

• rust_bindgen_library
• rust_bindgen
• rust_bindgen_toolchain
• rust_bindgen_dependencies
• rust_bindgen_register_toolchains

Overview

These rules are for using Bindgen to generate Rust bindings to C (and some C++) libraries.

See the bindgen example for a more complete example of use.

Setup

To use the Rust bindgen rules, add the following to your WORKSPACE file to add the external repositories for the Rust bindgen toolchain (in addition to the rust rules setup):

load("@rules_rust//bindgen:repositories.bzl", "rust_bindgen_dependencies", "rust_bindgen_register_toolchains")

rust_bindgen_dependencies()

rust_bindgen_register_toolchains()

load("@rules_rust//bindgen:transitive_repositories.bzl", "rust_bindgen_transitive_dependencies")

rust_bindgen_transitive_dependencies()

Bindgen aims to be as hermetic as possible so will end up building libclang from llvm-project from source. If this is found to be undesirable then no Bindgen related calls should be added to your WORKSPACE and instead users should define their own repositories using something akin to crate_universe and define their own toolchains following the instructions for rust_bindgen_toolchain.

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rust_bindgen

Generates a rust source file from a cc_library and a header.

ATTRIBUTES

Name	Description	Type	Mandatory	Default
name	A unique name for this target.	Name	required
bindgen_flags	Flags to pass directly to the bindgen executable. See https://rust-lang.github.io/rust-bindgen/ for details.	List of strings	optional	[]
cc_lib	The cc_library that contains the .h file. This is used to find the transitive includes.	Label	required
clang_flags	Flags to pass directly to the clang executable.	List of strings	optional	[]
header	The .h file to generate bindings for.	Label	required
leak_symbols	If True, cc_lib will be exposed and linked into all downstream consumers of the target vs. the rust_library directly consuming it.	Boolean	optional	False

rust_bindgen_toolchain

The tools required for the rust_bindgen rule.

This rule depends on the bindgen binary crate, and it in turn depends on both a clang binary and the clang library. To obtain these dependencies, rust_bindgen_dependencies imports bindgen and its dependencies.

load("@rules_rust//bindgen:defs.bzl", "rust_bindgen_toolchain")

rust_bindgen_toolchain(
    name = "bindgen_toolchain_impl",
    bindgen = "//my/rust:bindgen",
    clang = "//my/clang:clang",
    libclang = "//my/clang:libclang.so",
    libstdcxx = "//my/cpp:libstdc++",
)

toolchain(
    name = "bindgen_toolchain",
    toolchain = "bindgen_toolchain_impl",
    toolchain_type = "@rules_rust//bindgen:toolchain_type",
)

This toolchain will then need to be registered in the current WORKSPACE. For additional information, see the Bazel toolchains documentation.

ATTRIBUTES

Name	Description	Type	Mandatory	Default
name	A unique name for this target.	Name	required
bindgen	The label of a bindgen executable.	Label	optional	None
clang	The label of a clang executable.	Label	optional	None
default_rustfmt	If set, rust_bindgen targets will always format generated sources with rustfmt.	Boolean	optional	True
libclang	A cc_library that provides bindgen's runtime dependency on libclang.	Label	optional	None
libstdcxx	A cc_library that satisfies libclang's libstdc++ dependency. This is used to make the execution of clang hermetic. If None, system libraries will be used instead.	Label	optional	None

rust_bindgen_dependencies

Declare dependencies needed for bindgen.

RETURNS

list[struct(repo=str, is_dev_dep=bool)]: A list of the repositories defined by this macro.

rust_bindgen_library

Generates a rust source file for header, and builds a rust_library.

Arguments are the same as rust_bindgen, and kwargs are passed directly to rust_library.

PARAMETERS

Name	Description	Default Value
name	A unique name for this target.	none
header	The label of the .h file to generate bindings for.	none
cc_lib	The label of the cc_library that contains the .h file. This is used to find the transitive includes.	none
bindgen_flags	Flags to pass directly to the bindgen executable. See https://rust-lang.github.io/rust-bindgen/ for details.	None
clang_flags	Flags to pass directly to the clang executable.	None
kwargs	Arguments to forward to the underlying rust_library rule.	none

rust_bindgen_register_toolchains

Registers the default toolchains for the rules_rust bindgen rules.

PARAMETERS

Name	Description	Default Value
register_toolchains	Whether or not to register toolchains.	True