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//! [![github]](https://github.com/dtolnay/cxx) [![crates-io]](https://crates.io/crates/cxx) [![docs-rs]](https://docs.rs/cxx)
//!
//! [github]: https://img.shields.io/badge/github-8da0cb?style=for-the-badge&labelColor=555555&logo=github
//! [crates-io]: https://img.shields.io/badge/crates.io-fc8d62?style=for-the-badge&labelColor=555555&logo=rust
//! [docs-rs]: https://img.shields.io/badge/docs.rs-66c2a5?style=for-the-badge&labelColor=555555&logo=docs.rs
//!
//! <br>
//!
//! This library provides a **safe** mechanism for calling C++ code from Rust
//! and Rust code from C++, not subject to the many ways that things can go
//! wrong when using bindgen or cbindgen to generate unsafe C-style bindings.
//!
//! This doesn't change the fact that 100% of C++ code is unsafe. When auditing
//! a project, you would be on the hook for auditing all the unsafe Rust code
//! and *all* the C++ code. The core safety claim under this new model is that
//! auditing just the C++ side would be sufficient to catch all problems, i.e.
//! the Rust side can be 100% safe.
//!
//! <br>
//!
//! *Compiler support: requires rustc 1.60+ and c++11 or newer*<br>
//! *[Release notes](https://github.com/dtolnay/cxx/releases)*
//!
//! <br>
//!
//! # Guide
//!
//! Please see **<https://cxx.rs>** for a tutorial, reference material, and
//! example code.
//!
//! <br>
//!
//! # Overview
//!
//! The idea is that we define the signatures of both sides of our FFI boundary
//! embedded together in one Rust module (the next section shows an example).
//! From this, CXX receives a complete picture of the boundary to perform static
//! analyses against the types and function signatures to uphold both Rust's and
//! C++'s invariants and requirements.
//!
//! If everything checks out statically, then CXX uses a pair of code generators
//! to emit the relevant `extern "C"` signatures on both sides together with any
//! necessary static assertions for later in the build process to verify
//! correctness. On the Rust side this code generator is simply an attribute
//! procedural macro. On the C++ side it can be a small Cargo build script if
//! your build is managed by Cargo, or for other build systems like Bazel or
//! Buck we provide a command line tool which generates the header and source
//! file and should be easy to integrate.
//!
//! The resulting FFI bridge operates at zero or negligible overhead, i.e. no
//! copying, no serialization, no memory allocation, no runtime checks needed.
//!
//! The FFI signatures are able to use native types from whichever side they
//! please, such as Rust's `String` or C++'s `std::string`, Rust's `Box` or
//! C++'s `std::unique_ptr`, Rust's `Vec` or C++'s `std::vector`, etc in any
//! combination. CXX guarantees an ABI-compatible signature that both sides
//! understand, based on builtin bindings for key standard library types to
//! expose an idiomatic API on those types to the other language. For example
//! when manipulating a C++ string from Rust, its `len()` method becomes a call
//! of the `size()` member function defined by C++; when manipulation a Rust
//! string from C++, its `size()` member function calls Rust's `len()`.
//!
//! <br>
//!
//! # Example
//!
//! In this example we are writing a Rust application that wishes to take
//! advantage of an existing C++ client for a large-file blobstore service. The
//! blobstore supports a `put` operation for a discontiguous buffer upload. For
//! example we might be uploading snapshots of a circular buffer which would
//! tend to consist of 2 chunks, or fragments of a file spread across memory for
//! some other reason.
//!
//! A runnable version of this example is provided under the *demo* directory of
//! <https://github.com/dtolnay/cxx>. To try it out, run `cargo run` from that
//! directory.
//!
//! ```no_run
//! #[cxx::bridge]
//! mod ffi {
//! // Any shared structs, whose fields will be visible to both languages.
//! struct BlobMetadata {
//! size: usize,
//! tags: Vec<String>,
//! }
//!
//! extern "Rust" {
//! // Zero or more opaque types which both languages can pass around but
//! // only Rust can see the fields.
//! type MultiBuf;
//!
//! // Functions implemented in Rust.
//! fn next_chunk(buf: &mut MultiBuf) -> &[u8];
//! }
//!
//! unsafe extern "C++" {
//! // One or more headers with the matching C++ declarations. Our code
//! // generators don't read it but it gets #include'd and used in static
//! // assertions to ensure our picture of the FFI boundary is accurate.
//! include!("demo/include/blobstore.h");
//!
//! // Zero or more opaque types which both languages can pass around but
//! // only C++ can see the fields.
//! type BlobstoreClient;
//!
//! // Functions implemented in C++.
//! fn new_blobstore_client() -> UniquePtr<BlobstoreClient>;
//! fn put(&self, parts: &mut MultiBuf) -> u64;
//! fn tag(&self, blobid: u64, tag: &str);
//! fn metadata(&self, blobid: u64) -> BlobMetadata;
//! }
//! }
//! #
//! # pub struct MultiBuf;
//! #
//! # fn next_chunk(_buf: &mut MultiBuf) -> &[u8] {
//! # unimplemented!()
//! # }
//! #
//! # fn main() {}
//! ```
//!
//! Now we simply provide Rust definitions of all the things in the `extern
//! "Rust"` block and C++ definitions of all the things in the `extern "C++"`
//! block, and get to call back and forth safely.
//!
//! Here are links to the complete set of source files involved in the demo:
//!
//! - [demo/src/main.rs](https://github.com/dtolnay/cxx/blob/master/demo/src/main.rs)
//! - [demo/build.rs](https://github.com/dtolnay/cxx/blob/master/demo/build.rs)
//! - [demo/include/blobstore.h](https://github.com/dtolnay/cxx/blob/master/demo/include/blobstore.h)
//! - [demo/src/blobstore.cc](https://github.com/dtolnay/cxx/blob/master/demo/src/blobstore.cc)
//!
//! To look at the code generated in both languages for the example by the CXX
//! code generators:
//!
//! ```console
//! # run Rust code generator and print to stdout
//! # (requires https://github.com/dtolnay/cargo-expand)
//! $ cargo expand --manifest-path demo/Cargo.toml
//!
//! # run C++ code generator and print to stdout
//! $ cargo run --manifest-path gen/cmd/Cargo.toml -- demo/src/main.rs
//! ```
//!
//! <br>
//!
//! # Details
//!
//! As seen in the example, the language of the FFI boundary involves 3 kinds of
//! items:
//!
//! - **Shared structs** — their fields are made visible to both
//! languages. The definition written within cxx::bridge is the single source
//! of truth.
//!
//! - **Opaque types** — their fields are secret from the other language.
//! These cannot be passed across the FFI by value but only behind an
//! indirection, such as a reference `&`, a Rust `Box`, or a `UniquePtr`. Can
//! be a type alias for an arbitrarily complicated generic language-specific
//! type depending on your use case.
//!
//! - **Functions** — implemented in either language, callable from the
//! other language.
//!
//! Within the `extern "Rust"` part of the CXX bridge we list the types and
//! functions for which Rust is the source of truth. These all implicitly refer
//! to the `super` module, the parent module of the CXX bridge. You can think of
//! the two items listed in the example above as being like `use
//! super::MultiBuf` and `use super::next_chunk` except re-exported to C++. The
//! parent module will either contain the definitions directly for simple
//! things, or contain the relevant `use` statements to bring them into scope
//! from elsewhere.
//!
//! Within the `extern "C++"` part, we list types and functions for which C++ is
//! the source of truth, as well as the header(s) that declare those APIs. In
//! the future it's possible that this section could be generated bindgen-style
//! from the headers but for now we need the signatures written out; static
//! assertions will verify that they are accurate.
//!
//! Your function implementations themselves, whether in C++ or Rust, *do not*
//! need to be defined as `extern "C"` ABI or no\_mangle. CXX will put in the
//! right shims where necessary to make it all work.
//!
//! <br>
//!
//! # Comparison vs bindgen and cbindgen
//!
//! Notice that with CXX there is repetition of all the function signatures:
//! they are typed out once where the implementation is defined (in C++ or Rust)
//! and again inside the cxx::bridge module, though compile-time assertions
//! guarantee these are kept in sync. This is different from [bindgen] and
//! [cbindgen] where function signatures are typed by a human once and the tool
//! consumes them in one language and emits them in the other language.
//!
//! [bindgen]: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust-bindgen
//! [cbindgen]: https://github.com/eqrion/cbindgen/
//!
//! This is because CXX fills a somewhat different role. It is a lower level
//! tool than bindgen or cbindgen in a sense; you can think of it as being a
//! replacement for the concept of `extern "C"` signatures as we know them,
//! rather than a replacement for a bindgen. It would be reasonable to build a
//! higher level bindgen-like tool on top of CXX which consumes a C++ header
//! and/or Rust module (and/or IDL like Thrift) as source of truth and generates
//! the cxx::bridge, eliminating the repetition while leveraging the static
//! analysis safety guarantees of CXX.
//!
//! But note in other ways CXX is higher level than the bindgens, with rich
//! support for common standard library types. Frequently with bindgen when we
//! are dealing with an idiomatic C++ API we would end up manually wrapping that
//! API in C-style raw pointer functions, applying bindgen to get unsafe raw
//! pointer Rust functions, and replicating the API again to expose those
//! idiomatically in Rust. That's a much worse form of repetition because it is
//! unsafe all the way through.
//!
//! By using a CXX bridge as the shared understanding between the languages,
//! rather than `extern "C"` C-style signatures as the shared understanding,
//! common FFI use cases become expressible using 100% safe code.
//!
//! It would also be reasonable to mix and match, using CXX bridge for the 95%
//! of your FFI that is straightforward and doing the remaining few oddball
//! signatures the old fashioned way with bindgen and cbindgen, if for some
//! reason CXX's static restrictions get in the way. Please file an issue if you
//! end up taking this approach so that we know what ways it would be worthwhile
//! to make the tool more expressive.
//!
//! <br>
//!
//! # Cargo-based setup
//!
//! For builds that are orchestrated by Cargo, you will use a build script that
//! runs CXX's C++ code generator and compiles the resulting C++ code along with
//! any other C++ code for your crate.
//!
//! The canonical build script is as follows. The indicated line returns a
//! [`cc::Build`] instance (from the usual widely used `cc` crate) on which you
//! can set up any additional source files and compiler flags as normal.
//!
//! [`cc::Build`]: https://docs.rs/cc/1.0/cc/struct.Build.html
//!
//! ```toml
//! # Cargo.toml
//!
//! [build-dependencies]
//! cxx-build = "1.0"
//! ```
//!
//! ```no_run
//! // build.rs
//!
//! fn main() {
//! cxx_build::bridge("src/main.rs") // returns a cc::Build
//! .file("src/demo.cc")
//! .flag_if_supported("-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");
//! }
//! ```
//!
//! <br><br>
//!
//! # Non-Cargo setup
//!
//! 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 on crates.io or can be
//! built from the *gen/cmd* directory of <https://github.com/dtolnay/cxx>.
//!
//! ```bash
//! $ cargo install cxxbridge-cmd
//!
//! $ cxxbridge src/main.rs --header > path/to/mybridge.h
//! $ cxxbridge src/main.rs > path/to/mybridge.cc
//! ```
//!
//! <br>
//!
//! # Safety
//!
//! Be aware that the design of this library is intentionally restrictive and
//! opinionated! It isn't a goal to be powerful enough to handle arbitrary
//! signatures in either language. Instead this project is about carving out a
//! reasonably expressive set of functionality about which we can make useful
//! safety guarantees today and maybe extend over time. You may find that it
//! takes some practice to use CXX bridge effectively as it won't work in all
//! the ways that you are used to.
//!
//! Some of the considerations that go into ensuring safety are:
//!
//! - By design, our paired code generators work together to control both sides
//! of the FFI boundary. Ordinarily in Rust writing your own `extern "C"`
//! blocks is unsafe because the Rust compiler has no way to know whether the
//! signatures you've written actually match the signatures implemented in the
//! other language. With CXX we achieve that visibility and know what's on the
//! other side.
//!
//! - Our static analysis detects and prevents passing types by value that
//! shouldn't be passed by value from C++ to Rust, for example because they
//! may contain internal pointers that would be screwed up by Rust's move
//! behavior.
//!
//! - To many people's surprise, it is possible to have a struct in Rust and a
//! struct in C++ with exactly the same layout / fields / alignment /
//! everything, and still not the same ABI when passed by value. This is a
//! longstanding bindgen bug that leads to segfaults in absolutely
//! correct-looking code ([rust-lang/rust-bindgen#778]). CXX knows about this
//! and can insert the necessary zero-cost workaround transparently where
//! needed, so go ahead and pass your structs by value without worries. This
//! is made possible by owning both sides of the boundary rather than just
//! one.
//!
//! - Template instantiations: for example in order to expose a UniquePtr\<T\>
//! type in Rust backed by a real C++ unique\_ptr, we have a way of using a
//! Rust trait to connect the behavior back to the template instantiations
//! performed by the other language.
//!
//! [rust-lang/rust-bindgen#778]: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust-bindgen/issues/778
//!
//! <br>
//!
//! # Builtin types
//!
//! In addition to all the primitive types (i32 <=> int32_t), the
//! following common types may be used in the fields of shared structs and the
//! arguments and returns of functions.
//!
//! <table>
//! <tr><th>name in Rust</th><th>name in C++</th><th>restrictions</th></tr>
//! <tr><td>String</td><td>rust::String</td><td></td></tr>
//! <tr><td>&str</td><td>rust::Str</td><td></td></tr>
//! <tr><td>&[T]</td><td>rust::Slice<const T></td><td><sup><i>cannot hold opaque C++ type</i></sup></td></tr>
//! <tr><td>&mut [T]</td><td>rust::Slice<T></td><td><sup><i>cannot hold opaque C++ type</i></sup></td></tr>
//! <tr><td><a href="struct.CxxString.html">CxxString</a></td><td>std::string</td><td><sup><i>cannot be passed by value</i></sup></td></tr>
//! <tr><td>Box<T></td><td>rust::Box<T></td><td><sup><i>cannot hold opaque C++ type</i></sup></td></tr>
//! <tr><td><a href="struct.UniquePtr.html">UniquePtr<T></a></td><td>std::unique_ptr<T></td><td><sup><i>cannot hold opaque Rust type</i></sup></td></tr>
//! <tr><td><a href="struct.SharedPtr.html">SharedPtr<T></a></td><td>std::shared_ptr<T></td><td><sup><i>cannot hold opaque Rust type</i></sup></td></tr>
//! <tr><td>[T; N]</td><td>std::array<T, N></td><td><sup><i>cannot hold opaque C++ type</i></sup></td></tr>
//! <tr><td>Vec<T></td><td>rust::Vec<T></td><td><sup><i>cannot hold opaque C++ type</i></sup></td></tr>
//! <tr><td><a href="struct.CxxVector.html">CxxVector<T></a></td><td>std::vector<T></td><td><sup><i>cannot be passed by value, cannot hold opaque Rust type</i></sup></td></tr>
//! <tr><td>*mut T, *const T</td><td>T*, const T*</td><td><sup><i>fn with a raw pointer argument must be declared unsafe to call</i></sup></td></tr>
//! <tr><td>fn(T, U) -> V</td><td>rust::Fn<V(T, U)></td><td><sup><i>only passing from Rust to C++ is implemented so far</i></sup></td></tr>
//! <tr><td>Result<T></td><td>throw/catch</td><td><sup><i>allowed as return type only</i></sup></td></tr>
//! </table>
//!
//! The C++ API of the `rust` namespace is defined by the *include/cxx.h* file
//! in <https://github.com/dtolnay/cxx>. You will need to include this header in
//! your C++ code when working with those types.
//!
//! The following types are intended to be supported "soon" but are just not
//! implemented yet. I don't expect any of these to be hard to make work but
//! it's a matter of designing a nice API for each in its non-native language.
//!
//! <table>
//! <tr><th>name in Rust</th><th>name in C++</th></tr>
//! <tr><td>BTreeMap<K, V></td><td><sup><i>tbd</i></sup></td></tr>
//! <tr><td>HashMap<K, V></td><td><sup><i>tbd</i></sup></td></tr>
//! <tr><td>Arc<T></td><td><sup><i>tbd</i></sup></td></tr>
//! <tr><td>Option<T></td><td><sup><i>tbd</i></sup></td></tr>
//! <tr><td><sup><i>tbd</i></sup></td><td>std::map<K, V></td></tr>
//! <tr><td><sup><i>tbd</i></sup></td><td>std::unordered_map<K, V></td></tr>
//! </table>
#![no_std]
#![doc(html_root_url = "https://docs.rs/cxx/1.0.94")]
#![deny(
improper_ctypes,
improper_ctypes_definitions,
missing_docs,
unsafe_op_in_unsafe_fn
)]
#![cfg_attr(doc_cfg, feature(doc_cfg))]
#![allow(non_camel_case_types)]
#![allow(
clippy::cognitive_complexity,
clippy::declare_interior_mutable_const,
clippy::doc_markdown,
clippy::empty_enum,
clippy::extra_unused_type_parameters,
clippy::inherent_to_string,
clippy::items_after_statements,
clippy::large_enum_variant,
clippy::len_without_is_empty,
clippy::missing_errors_doc,
clippy::missing_safety_doc,
clippy::module_inception,
clippy::module_name_repetitions,
clippy::must_use_candidate,
clippy::needless_doctest_main,
clippy::new_without_default,
clippy::or_fun_call,
clippy::ptr_arg,
clippy::toplevel_ref_arg,
clippy::transmute_undefined_repr, // clippy bug: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust-clippy/issues/8417
clippy::useless_let_if_seq,
clippy::wrong_self_convention
)]
#[cfg(built_with_cargo)]
extern crate link_cplusplus;
extern crate self as cxx;
#[doc(hidden)]
pub extern crate core;
#[cfg(feature = "alloc")]
#[doc(hidden)]
pub extern crate alloc;
#[cfg(not(feature = "alloc"))]
extern crate core as alloc;
#[cfg(feature = "std")]
#[doc(hidden)]
pub extern crate std;
// Block inadvertent use of items from libstd, which does not otherwise produce
// a compile-time error on edition 2018+.
#[cfg(not(feature = "std"))]
extern crate core as std;
#[cfg(not(any(feature = "alloc", cxx_experimental_no_alloc)))]
compile_error! {
r#"cxx support for no_alloc is incomplete and semver exempt; you must build with at least one of feature="std", feature="alloc", or RUSTFLAGS='--cfg cxx_experimental_no_alloc'"#
}
#[cfg(all(compile_error_if_alloc, feature = "alloc"))]
compile_error! {
r#"feature="alloc" is unexpectedly enabled"#
}
#[cfg(all(compile_error_if_std, feature = "std"))]
compile_error! {
r#"feature="std" is unexpectedly enabled"#
}
#[macro_use]
mod macros;
mod c_char;
mod cxx_vector;
mod exception;
mod extern_type;
mod fmt;
mod function;
mod hash;
mod lossy;
pub mod memory;
mod opaque;
mod result;
mod rust_slice;
mod rust_str;
mod rust_string;
mod rust_type;
mod rust_vec;
mod shared_ptr;
mod sip;
#[path = "cxx_string.rs"]
mod string;
mod symbols;
mod type_id;
mod unique_ptr;
mod unwind;
pub mod vector;
mod weak_ptr;
pub use crate::cxx_vector::CxxVector;
#[cfg(feature = "alloc")]
pub use crate::exception::Exception;
pub use crate::extern_type::{kind, ExternType};
pub use crate::shared_ptr::SharedPtr;
pub use crate::string::CxxString;
pub use crate::unique_ptr::UniquePtr;
pub use crate::weak_ptr::WeakPtr;
pub use cxxbridge_macro::bridge;
/// Synonym for `CxxString`.
///
/// To avoid confusion with Rust's standard library string you probably
/// shouldn't import this type with `use`. Instead, write `cxx::String`, or
/// import and use `CxxString`.
pub type String = CxxString;
/// Synonym for `CxxVector`.
///
/// To avoid confusion with Rust's standard library vector you probably
/// shouldn't import this type with `use`. Instead, write `cxx::Vector<T>`, or
/// import and use `CxxVector`.
pub type Vector<T> = CxxVector<T>;
// Not public API.
#[doc(hidden)]
pub mod private {
pub use crate::c_char::c_char;
pub use crate::cxx_vector::VectorElement;
pub use crate::extern_type::{verify_extern_kind, verify_extern_type};
pub use crate::function::FatFunction;
pub use crate::hash::hash;
pub use crate::opaque::Opaque;
#[cfg(feature = "alloc")]
pub use crate::result::{r#try, Result};
pub use crate::rust_slice::RustSlice;
pub use crate::rust_str::RustStr;
#[cfg(feature = "alloc")]
pub use crate::rust_string::RustString;
pub use crate::rust_type::{ImplBox, ImplVec, RustType};
#[cfg(feature = "alloc")]
pub use crate::rust_vec::RustVec;
pub use crate::shared_ptr::SharedPtrTarget;
pub use crate::string::StackString;
pub use crate::unique_ptr::UniquePtrTarget;
pub use crate::unwind::prevent_unwind;
pub use crate::weak_ptr::WeakPtrTarget;
pub use core::{concat, module_path};
pub use cxxbridge_macro::type_id;
}
mod actually_private {
pub trait Private {}
}
macro_rules! chars {
($($ch:ident)*) => {
$(
#[doc(hidden)]
pub enum $ch {}
)*
};
}
chars! {
_0 _1 _2 _3 _4 _5 _6 _7 _8 _9
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z
__ // underscore
}
#[repr(transparent)]
struct void(core::ffi::c_void);