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- 0.47.0
- 0.33.1 .. 0.46.0
- 0.33.1
- 0.33.0
- 0.32.2
- 0.32.1
- 0.32.0
- 0.31.0
- 0.30.0
- 0.29.0
- Added the
--generate-cstr
CLI flag to generate string constants as&CStr
instead of&[u8]
. (Requires Rust 1.59 or higher.) - Added the
--generate-shell-completions
CLI flag to generate completions for different shells.
- Non-UTF-8 string constants are now generated as references (
&[u8; SIZE]
) instead of arrays ([u8; SIZE]
) to match UTF-8 strings. - Wrappers for static functions that return
void
no longer contain areturn
statement and only call the static function instead. - The
--wrap-static-fns
option no longer emits wrappers for static variadic functions. - Depfiles generated with
--depfile
orBuilder::depfile
will now be properly generate module names and paths that include spaces by escaping them. To make the escaping clear and consistent, backslashes are also escaped. - Updated
bitflags
dependency to 2.2.1. This changes the API ofCodegenConfig
.
- Prettyplease is available as a
Formatter
variant now.
- The
Builder::rustfmt_bindings
method was added back and tagged as deprecated instead of being removed. - Broken documentation links were fixed.
- Added the
Builder::default_visibility
method and the--default-visibility
flag to set the default visibility of fields. (#2338) - Added the
--formatter
CLI flag with the valuesnone
,rustfmt
andprettyplease
to select which tool will be used to format the bindings. The default value isrustfmt
. (#2453) - Added the
Builder::formatter
method and theFormatter
type to select which tool will be used to format the bindings. (#2453) - Added the
Builder::emit_diagnostics
method and the--emit-diagnostics
flag to enable emission of diagnostic messages under theexperimental
feature. (#2436) - Added support for the
"efiapi"
calling convention (#2490). - Added the
ParseCallbacks::read_env_var
method which runs everytimebindgen
reads and environment variable. (#2400) - Added the
ParseCallbacks::generated_link_name_override
method which allow overriding the link name of items. (#2425) - Add support for C
enum
s when generating code while using the--wrap-static-fns
feature. (#2415)
- Static functions with no arguments use
void
as their single argument instead of having no arguments when the--wrap-static-fns
flag is used. (#2443) - The source file generated when the
--wrap-static-fns
flag is enabled now contains#include
directives with all the input headers and all the source code added with theheader_contents
method. (#2447) - The source file generated when the
--wrap-static-fns
flag no longer usesasm
labeling and the link name of static wrapper functions is allowed to be mangled. (#2448) - The documentation of the generated
type
aliases now matches the comments of theirtypedef
counterparts instead of using the comments of the aliased types. (#2463) - The
Builder::rustfmt_bindings
methods and the--no-rustfmt-bindings
flag are now deprecated in favor of the formatter API. (#2453)
- The following deprecated flags were removed:
--use-msvc-mangling
,--rustfmt-bindings
and--size_t-is-usize
. (#2408) - The
Bindings::emit_warnings
andBindings::warnings
methods were removed in favor of--emit-diagnostics
. (#2436) - Bindgen no longer generates C string constants that cannot be represented as byte slices. (#2487)
- Added a new set of flags
--with-derive-custom
,--with-derive-custom-struct
,--with-derive-custom-enum
and--with-derive-custom-enum
to add custom derives from the CLI. - Added the
--experimental
flag onbindgen-cli
and theexperimental
feature onbindgen
to gate experimental features whose implementation is incomplete or are prone to change in a non-backwards compatible manner. - Added a new set of flags and their equivalent builder methods
--wrap-static-fns
,--wrap-static-fns-suffix
and--wrap-static-fns-path
to generate C function wrappers forstatic
orstatic inline
functions. This feature is experimental.
- Fixed name collisions when having a C
enum
and atypedef
with the same name. - The
ParseCallbacks::generated_name_override
method now receivesItemInfo<'_>
as argument instead of a&str
. - Updated the
clang-sys
crate version to 1.4.0 to support clang 15. - The return type is now ommited in signatures of functions returning
void
. - Updated the
clap
dependency forbindgen-cli
to 4. - Rewrote the
bindgen-cli
argument parser which could introduce unexpected behavior changes. - The
ParseCallbacks::add_derives
method now receivesDeriveInfo<'_>
as argument instead of a&str
. This type also includes the kind of target type.
- new feature:
process_comments
method to theParseCallbacks
trait to handle source code comments.
- Only wrap unsafe operations in unsafe blocks if the
--wrap_unsafe_ops
option is enabled. - Replace the
name: &str
argument forParseCallbacks::add_derives
byinfo: DeriveInfo
. - All the rust targets equal or lower than
1.30
are being deprecated and will be removed in the future. If you have a good reason to use any of these targets, please report it in the issue tracker.
- The following deprecated methods and their equivalent CLI arguments were
removed:
whitelist_recursively
,hide_type
,blacklist_type
,blacklist_function
,blacklist_item
,whitelisted_type
,whitelist_type
,whitelist_function
,whitelisted_function
,whitelist_var
,whitelisted_var
,unstable_rust
.
- new feature:
--override-abi
flag to override the ABI used by functions matching a regular expression. - new feature: allow using the
C-unwind
ABI in--override-abi
on nightly rust.
- Regex inputs are sanitized so alternation (
a|b
) is handled correctly but wildcard patterns (*
) are now considered invalid. The.*
pattern can be used as a replacement. - the
ParseCallbacks
trait does not require to implementUnwindSafe
. - the
Builder::parse_callbacks
method no longer overwrites previously added callbacks and composes them in a last-to-first manner. - any generated rust code containing unsafe operations inside unsafe functions is wrapped in unsafe blocks now.
- Various issues with upcoming clang/libclang versions have been fixed.
Released 2022/10/16
- new feature:
--sort-semantically
flag to sort the output in a predefined manner (#1743). - new feature:
Bindgen::emit_warnings
method to emit warnings to stderr in build scripts. - new feature:
--newtype-global-enum
flag to generate enum variants as global constants. - new feature:
--default-non-copy-union-style
flag to set the default style of code used to generate unions with non-Copy
members. - new feature:
--bindgen-wrapper-union
flag to mark any union that matches a regex and has a non-Copy member to use a bindgen-generated wrapper for its fields. - new feature:
--manually-drop-union
flag to mark any union that matches a regex and has a non-Copy
member to useManuallyDrop
. - new feature:
--merge-extern-blocks
flag to merge severalextern
blocks that have the same ABI. - new feature:
--no-size_t-is-usize
flag to not bindsize_t
asusize
. - new feature:
Builder
implementsClone
.
- clap and regex have been updated, new msrv is 1.57.
- The
--enable-function-attribute-detection
flag is also used to detect diverging functions so the generated bindings use!
as the return type. - The
--size_t-is-usize
flag is enabled by default. - Unused type aliases for
<stdint.h>
types are no longer emitted. - The
blocklist
options now can be used to block objective-C methods. - The
core::ffi
module is used the sized raw integer types instead ofstd::os::raw
if the Rust target version is1.64
or higher and the--use-core
flag is enabled. - The
bindgen
CLI utility must be installed usingcargo install bindgen-cli
now. - Using
bindgen
as a library no longer pulls clap and any other CLI related dependencies.
- Const correctness of incomplete arrays has been fixed. (#2301)
- C++ inline namespaces don't panic. (#2294)
Released 2022/06/06
- Fixed stack overflow in generated tests for structs with many fields (#2219).
Released 2022/06/05
- Objective-C structs now derive
Debug
andCopy
to support C and Objective-C structs. (#2176) - Allow fully-qualified derives. (#2156)
- Bindings generation now returns a more suitable error (#2125)
--version --verbose
now prints clang version (#2140).- Experimental vtable generation (#2145).
- Added an
--allowlist-file
option (#2122). - Support for vectorcall ABI (#2177).
- Fixed lifetimes with Objective-C trait templates. (#2176)
- Fixed objc imports for non-
#[macro_use]
use. (#2176) - Handle differences between clang and rustc targets for RISCV (#2137).
BINDGEN_EXTRA_CLANG_ARGS
is respected on the CLI now (#1723).- Use common type alias for anonymous enums in consts mode (#2191)
- Look for
#[must_use]
in typedefs (#2206). - Fixed derive on packed structs (#2083).
- Fixed warnings on layout tests (#2203).
- cexpr, clap, and nom have been updated, new msrv is 1.54.
- Support for ancient libclang versions has been removed.
Released 2021/11/26
- cexpr+env_logger bump.
- Various fixes for C++ crashes / hangs.
- Enums now respect annotations and derives properly in more cases.
- Some more APIs (blocklist-file, etc).
- 'static lifetime is elided when appropriate.
Released 2021/07/26
- Fixed incorrect bitfield constructors generated for very large bitfields (#2082).
Released 2021/07/20
- Support emitting Makefile-syntax depfiles (#2026)
- Add a C naming option (#2045)
- Allow explicit padding (#2060)
- Add custom derives callback (#2059)
- Let Rust derive everything but Default for large arrays in 1.47 and later (#2070).
- Constants now have docstrings (#2027)
- Don't generate bindings for deleted member functions. (#2044)
- Zero out padding in custom Default trait implementations (#2051)
- Identify forward declarations in params. (#2052)
- Add env var EXTRA_CLANG_ARGS_. (#2031)
- cexpr and nom have been updated, new msrv is 1.44 (#2073).
Released 2021/04/06
- Re-introduced unintentionally removed
bindgen::Builder::whitelist_recursively
(deprecated in favor ofbindgen::Builder::allowlist_recursively
). [#2022][]
Released 2021/04/03
- Add option to translate enum integer types to native Rust integer types. [#2004][]
- Add callback to check derives for blocklisted types. [#2007][]
- Add a flag to ensure all symbols are resolved when a library is loaded. [#2013][]
- Add from_library for generated dynamic library structs [#2011][].
- Track union layout more accurately. Fixes an AArch64 bug and makes the bindings more portable where unions could return garbage data (#1984)
- Use original name when checking allowlist for anonymous enum variants. [#2006][]
-
bindgen::Builder::whitelist_type
is deprecated in favor ofbindgen::Builder::allowlist_type
. [#1812][] -
bindgen::Builder::whitelist_function
is deprecated in favor ofbindgen::Builder::allowlist_function
. [#1812][] -
bindgen::Builder::whitelist_var
is deprecated in favor ofbindgen::Builder::allowlist_var
. [#1812][] -
--whitelist-type
is deprecated in favor of--allowlist-type
. [#1812][] -
--whitelist-function
is deprecated in favor of--allowlist-function
. [#1812][] -
--whitelist-var
is deprecated in favor of--allowlist-var
. [#1812][] -
bindgen::Builder::blacklist_type
is deprecated in favor ofbindgen::Builder::blocklist_type
. [#1812][] -
bindgen::Builder::blacklist_function
is deprecated in favor ofbindgen::Builder::blocklist_function
. [#1812][] -
bindgen::Builder::blacklist_item
is deprecated in favor ofbindgen::Builder::blocklist_item
. [#1812][] -
--blacklist-type
is deprecated in favor of--blocklist-type
. [#1812][] -
--blacklist-function
is deprecated in favor of--blocklist-function
. [#1812][] -
--blacklist-item
is deprecated in favor of--blocklist-item
. [#1812][]
Released 2021/02/01
- Expose module-raw-lines to the CLI (#1936)
- Added an option to fit macro constants to smaller types (#1945)
- Add an option to respect C++ access specifiers on fields (#1968)
- Improved C++ auto-detection (#1933)
- Fixed layout of bitfields in some edge cases (#1950)
- Escape the dyn keyword properly (#1951)
- Use absolute paths for unsaved files passed to clang (#1857).
Released 2020/11/26
- Objective-c bindings generate
From<ChildClass> for ParentClass
as well asTryFrom<ParentClass> for ChildClass
(#1883). - Experimental dynamic library support via
dynamic_library_name
(#1846). - Option to disable deriving
Default
on a per-struct basis (#1930).
- Objective-c bindings borrow self rather than take ownership (#1883).
- Templates and enums now correctly use the same naming scheme as other types (#1891).
- Constructors in wasm32 now return a value. (#1877).
- Fixed objective-c protocol impl blocks for parent classes's protocols (#1883).
Released 2020/08/24.
- Fixed a regression where anonymous enums referenced by members or such won't generate valid Rust code. (#1882).
Released 2020/08/23.
- Support for libclang 3.8 has been removed (#1830).
-
Added options to avoid deriving the Debug trait (#1858).
-
Added options to allow to override the default anonymous field prefix (#1859).
-
Added options to allow to override the default macro integer type from the command line (#1863).
-
Typed anonymous enums now generate better code (#1850).
-
Objective-C bindings are more idiomatic now (#1847).
-
Updated to clang-sys 1.0. Minimum supported rust version is 1.40 as a consequence of that change.
-
Fixed constness of multi-dimensional arrays in some cases (#1861).
-
Fixed wrong target given to clang when compiling with a target which doesn't match the target clang expects (#1870, #1878).
-
Fixed wrong flags being computed for cross-compilation cases where the target wasn't explicitly provided via clang flags (#1872).
Thanks again to all the awesome contributors that sent patches included in this release!
Released 2020/07/06.
Yanked: The change in #1798 is technically breaking, see PR for details.
-
Added ParseCallbacks::func_macro to be able to process function-like macros. (#1792).
-
Allowed IntKind::Custom to represent paths instead of idents (#1800).
-
Generated comment now includes the bindgen version, and can be disabled (#1814).
-
Various documentation improvements.
-
Typedefs for types with the same names as rust primitive types compiles (#1798).
-
Bindgen dependencies will now get rebuilt when various environment variables that affect bindgen change (#1809, #1813).
-
Various fixes to command_line_flags (#1816, #1819, #1821).
-
Functions that start with
operator
now get properly generated (#1817).
Thanks to all the awesome contributors that sent patches included in this release!
Released 2020/05/21.
- New command line flag to allow disabling untagged unions (#1789).
- Various documentation improvements (#1764, #1751, #1757).
- Better Objective-C support (#1722, #1750).
- Rust method wrappers are not emitted for blacklisted functions (#1775).
- Fixed function signatures in some edge cases involving Objective-C or
__stdcall
(#1781).
Released 2020/05/21.
Note: This release contains the same fixes and additions as 0.54.0, but without the Objective-C breaking changes
- New command line flag to allow disabling untagged unions (#1789).
- Rust method wrappers are not emitted for blacklisted functions (#1775).
- Fixed function signatures in some edge cases involving Objective-C or
__stdcall
(#1781).
Released 2020/03/10.
- clang-sys and cexpr have been updated (#1741 and #1744).
- Runtime of some commands has been improved (#1737)
- Some error messages have been improved (#1734).
Released 2020/02/03.
- Opt-in to convert size_t to usize again (#1720).
Released 2020/02/02.
- Support for wasm_import_module. (#1691).
- non_exhaustive feature is now stable (#1698).
- Various objective-C improvements (#1702).
- Removed size_t to usize conversion rule (#1688).
- Various unneeded padding fields shouldn't be generated anymore (#1710).
- Bitfields on packed structs should generate correct layout (#1717).
- Too large bitfield blocks now generate compiling code (#1719).
Released 2019/11/19.
- Added
newtype
enum style, much likebitfield
but without the bitwise ops (#1677). - Added support for
MaybeUninit
rather thanmem::uninitialized()
(#1666). - Allowed static linking (#1620) behind a feature. Note that if you're using
default-features = false
, you probably want to use the"runtime"
feature to get the same behavior as before.
- Use c_void from core when --use-core is specified and available (#1634).
- Various dependencies and features are non-default now (like
regex
unicode features).
- Fixed crash when unknown keywords are used before a namespace (#1678).
- Do not generate implementation for clone for flexible array members (#1664).
- Fixed
#[must_use]
support for libclang 9+ (#1646). - Fixed
BitfieldUnit
constructor to handle 64 bit wide bitfields on 32 bit (#1640). - Added a
ParseCallbacks
handler for included files. (#1637).
Released 2019/09/23.
- Mismatched
Ord
andPartialOrd
implementations were fixed, which regresses bindgen in funny ways when using rustc nightly. Dot releases for a few of the previous versions of bindgen will be created with this fix. Also, av0.51.1-oldsyn
version was uploaded without the syn update. #1627
-
Syn and related dependencies have been updated. #1611
-
Switches added to allow less dependencies. In particular: It won't pull
failure
and related dependencies by default, and there's a default-onwhich-rustfmt
feature which allows to get rid ofwhich
altogether. #1615 / #1625 -
fxhash
dependency was switched torustc-hash
. #1626
Released 2019/07/26.
-
Improve workaround for LLVM stack overflow when evaluating value-dependent expressions. #1591
-
Bindgen will properly detect the layout of incomplete arrays. #1592
-
Bindgen will properly detect the layout of empty unions and forward declarations of unions. #1593 and #1595. Thanks @pmarks!
- Refactored the way layout of
wchar_t
is computed. This is a breaking change sinceIntKind::WChar
(exposed inParseCallbacks
) no longer needs asize
member. #1596
- Bindgen now reads
RUSTFMT
in the environment to try to find a suitablerustfmt
binary. #1602
Released 2019/07/01.
-
Fixed pointers to Objective C blocks #1582.
-
Various bindgen auto-generated types are now constructible in
const fn
contexts #1571 -
It is possible to generate
#[non_exhaustive]
enums for rust nightly targets. #1575 -
It is possible to avoid building clap now if you're using bindgen as a library. #1581.
Released 2019/06/25. YANKED
-
Various bindgen auto-generated types are now constructible in
const fn
contexts #1571 -
It is possible to generate
#[non_exhaustive]
enums for rust nightly targets. #1575 -
It is possible to avoid building clap now if you're using bindgen as a library. #1581.
Released 2019/05/22
- Bindgen now has an option to generate array arguments as pointer to the array,
not to the element (so
void foo(int arr[2])
would be generated asarr: *mut [c_int; 2]
rather thanarr: *mut c_int
. Thanks @elichai! #1564.
Released 2019/05/16
- Bindgen will not emit
#[link_name]
attributes in win32 and macos for C functions and constants where it can detect it's not needed (thanks @michaelwoerister!). #1558
- Bindgen will no longer use
hashbrown
internally, and will use fxhash andstd::HashMap
. This is equivalent for newerrustc
s sincehashbrown
was merged in libstd, and the performance difference should be close to zero for older rustcs.
Released 2019/03/27
- BINDGEN_EXTRA_CLANG_ARGS environment variable was added (thanks @jhwgh1968!). #1537
- Bindgen will properly name parameters inside nested function pointer declarations (thanks @flowbish!). #1535
- Derive code was greatly improved by @jethrogb. #1540
- Derive analysis now handles trivial types more gracefully. #1492
- clang-sys was updated by @eclipseo. [#1539][]
- bindgen should now get include paths correctly even when
--target
is specified. Thedetect_include_paths
option can be used to opt-out of this behavior.
Released 2019/03/06
- Bindgen will properly lay out types that use reference members. #1531
Released 2019/03/04
- Default rust target was changed to 1.33, which means that bindgen can get much more often the layout of structs right. #1529
- Bindgen will output repr(align) just when needed for unions. #1498
Released 2020/11/13
- Backported BINDGEN_EXTRA_CLANG_ARGS support per request (#1910).
Released 2019/02/25
- Allowed to build with which 1.0.
Released 2019/02/22
- @flowbish fixed code generation for nested function prototypes. #1508
- Some complex C++ constructs no longer panic on code generation #1513
- Implicit template parameters are now appended to base classes #1515
- @flier fixed single-argument block pointers #1519
- Bindgen won't panic when parsing an undeduced auto type #1525
Released 2019/02/02
- @luser improved the error message when rustfmt cannot be found #1501
- Reverted
clang-sys
update for regressions #1505
Released 2019/01/19
#pragma pack(n)
is now translated to#[repr(C, packed(n))]
when targeting Rust 1.33+. #537
- Bitfield enums now use
#[repr(transparent)]
instead of#[repr(C)]
when targeting Rust 1.28+. #1474
#[repr(packed)]
is now properly added if the struct only contains a vtable. #1495
clang-sys
should now more accurately find libclang versions when multiple of them are available. #1489
https://github.com/rust-lang/rust-bindgen/compare/v0.32.2...v0.46.0
(Just a sneak peek, since a lot of stuff has changed :D)
- APIs to add lines to specific rust modules / C++ namespaces exist now. #1307
- The link options (
link
,link_framework
,link_static
) have been removed. They did nothing already, see #104
- Associated constants are used now for bitfield enums when available. #1166
- New versions of a bunch of dependencies (syn / quote / etc.).
- Better target information from clang to properly generate types when cross-compiling #1289.
- Bitfields now work properly on big-endian machines. #1340
wchar_t
layout works properly now. #1345
- Functions can be blacklisted now. #1364
- ... Lot's more!
Released 2018/02/14
- Reverted the dependency update to
quote = "0.4"
and addition of theproc_macro2
dependency. Theproc_macro2
crate depends onrustc
internal libraries, which means that CLIs which use it must be run underrustup
, which is not acceptable forbindgen
. #1248
Released 2018/01/22
- Avoid symbol generation for pure virtual functions. #1197
- Handling of
_Complex _Float128
. #1087 - Regression on code generation for variadic functions. #1216
- Enum code generation generates conflicting repr hint warning. #1224
- Constified code generation for enums with an explicit type of
bool
. #1145 - Bindgen will now call
rustfmt
directly instead of viarustup
. #1184
Released 2017/12/18
- When translating C/C++
enum
s into Rustenum
s usingrustified_enum
/--rustified-enum
, properly add#[repr(C)]
to the emittedenum
. #1183
Released 2017/12/08
-
Added support for bit-field allocation units that are larger than 64 bits wide. Note that individual bit-fields within such units are still restricted to being no wider than 64 bits. #1158
-
We can now generate random C header files and test that
bindgen
can process them with thequickcheck
crate. Initial support landed in [#1159][] with a few more additions in follow up pull requests.
-
The
bindgen::Builder::{constified_enum_module,{bitfield,rustified}_enum}
builder methods and their corresponding CLI flags now compare their argument to the C/C++enum
's "canonical path", which includes leading namespaces, rather than its "canonical name", which does not. This is a breaking change that requires callers which target a namespaced C++ enum to call e.g.bitfield_enum("<namespace>::<enum_name>")
rather than e.g.bitfield_enum("<enum_name>")
. #1162 -
When a struct is packed to a smaller alignment that is still greater than one,
bindgen
cannot emit Rust bindings that match the input source. Before, it would emit#[repr(packed)]
anyways, which packs to an alignment of one, but this can lead to misalignment and UB. Now,bindgen
will detect these situations and convert the struct into an opaque blob of bytes with the proper alignment. We are eagerly awaiting support for#[repr(packed(N))]
in Rust. #1136
-
There was a perfect storm of conditions that could cause
bindgen
not to emit any bindings if spawningrustfmt
to format the bindings failed. This is now fixed. #1112 -
In some circumstances,
bindgen
would emit type parameters twice for references to template instantiations. This is now fixed. #1113 -
When a C/C++ struct had a field named with a Rust keyword, and
impl_debug
was enabled, the generatedimpl Debug for ...
blocks could reference the field by the Rust keyword name, rather than the non-keyword field name we actually end up generating. This is now fixed. #1123 -
There was a regression in 0.31.0 where C++ template aliases to opaque types would sometimes not treat the aliased type as opaque. This is now fixed. #1118
-
There was a regression in 0.31.0 that could cause
bindgen
to panic when parsing nested template classes. This is now fixed. #1127 -
Unnamed bit-fields do not affect alignment of their struct or class in C/C++, however
bindgen
interpreted them as doing so, which could generate#[repr(C)]
structs expecting to have an incorrect alignment. This is now fixed. #1076 -
When a zero-sized type was used in a bit-field,
bindgen
could divide-by-zero. This is now fixed. #1137 -
When a template parameter is used in a bit-field,
bindgen
would panic. This is now fixed. #1140 -
There was a regression in 0.31.0 where if
bindgen
was given a header file that did not exist, it would panic. This is now fixed, and it will instead properly report the error. #1146 -
In some cases, generated bit-field getters and setters could access memory beyond
self
. This is now fixed. [#954][]
Released 2017/10/27
-
🎉 A new
bindgen
reviewer: @pepyakin 🎉 You can ask @pepyakin to review all your future pull requests withr? @pepyakin
from now on 😄 -
Timers for seeing which phases
bindgen
is spending its time in. On the command line, use the--time-phases
flag. From a builder, use thebindgen::Builder::time_phases(true)
method. #938 -
You can now disable
#[derive(Copy)]
for all types with--no-derive-copy
andbindgen::Builder::derive_copy(false)
. #948 -
We now have an overview of
bindgen
's code base and architecture for newcomers inCONTRIBUTING.md
. #988 -
Derive
PartialOrd
with the--with-derive-partialord
CLI flag orbindgen::Builder::derive_partialord(true)
builder method. #882 -
Derive
Ord
with the--with-derive-ord
CLI flag orbindgen::Builder::derive_ord(true)
builder method. #884 -
When
PartialEq
cannot be derived because of an array larger than Rust's array-derive limit,bindgen
can emit animpl PartialEq for ...
block. Enable this behavior with the--impl-partialeq
CLI flag or thebindgen::Builder::impl_partialeq(true)
method. #1012 -
When deriving
PartialEq
for all types, you can now specify particular types that shouldn'tderive(PartialEq)
with the--no-partialeq <regex>
CLI flag orbindgen::Builder::no_partialeq("<regex>")
builder method. #996 -
Specify types that should not derive
Copy
with the--no-copy <regex>
CLI flag orbindgen::Builder::no_copy("<regex>")
builder method. This functionality was previously only available via comment annotations in the header sources. #1099 -
When deriving
Hash
for all types, you can now specify particular types that shouldn'tderive(Hash)
with the--no-hash <regex>
CLI flag orbindgen::Builder::no_hash("<regex>")
builder method. #1105 -
The
bindgen
users guide now has an FAQ section! If you have any FAQ suggestions to put up there, please open a pull request. [#1020][] -
Added
csmith
fuzzing infrastructure.csmith
generates random C and C++ programs, we feed those intobindgen
as headers to generate bindings to, then test that the generated bindings compile and that their layout tests pass. This infrastructure landed in many small bits.We <3 folks who help us find and fix issues via fuzzing! hint hint
-
Added experimental support for the
thiscall
ABI when targetting Rust nightly. #1065
-
If the user does not explicitly pass a
--target
argument forlibclang
,bindgen
will insert such an argument itself. See #942, #947, and #953 for details. -
C/C++
enum
s are now translated into constants by default, rather than Rustenum
s. The old behavior was a big footgun becauserustc
assumes that the only values of anenum
are its variants, whereas a lot of C/C++ code uses random values asenum
s. Put these two things and it leads to undefined behavior. Translating C/C++enum
s into Rustenum
s is still available with the--rustified-enum <regex>
CLI flag andbindgen::Builder::rustified_enum("<regex>")
builder method. #758 -
Generated bindings are now pretty printed with
rustfmt
by default. Previously, this option existed, but was off by default becausesyntex
did an OK job at pretty printing the bindings. Now that we are usingquote! { ... }
instead ofsyntex
, we lost that pretty printing, and now rely onrustfmt
. You can disablerustfmt
ing with--no-rustfmt-bindings
orbindgen::Builder::rustfmt_bindings(false)
. See #925 and #1022 for details.
-
bindgen::Builder::hide_type
is deprecated in favor ofbindgen::Builder::blacklist_type
. #987 -
bindgen::Builder::whitelisted_type
is deprecated in favor ofbindgen::Builder::whitelist_type
. #987 -
bindgen::Builder::whitelisted_function
is deprecated in favor ofbindgen::Builder::whitelist_function
. #985 -
bindgen::Builder::whitelisted_var
is deprecated in favor ofbindgen::Builder::whitelist_var
. #989
-
Removed the dependency on (unmaintained)
syntex
, and build times are cut in half!Before:
$ cargo clean; cargo build <snip> Finished dev [unoptimized + debuginfo] target(s) in 98.75 secs
After:
$ cargo clean; cargo build <snip> Finished dev [unoptimized + debuginfo] target(s) in 46.26 secs
-
The
BindgenOptions
type is no longer public. It had been deprecated in previous releases. Usebindgen::Builder
instead. #1000
-
Under certain conditions, a globally scoped
enum
could end up with bindings in the wrong namespace module. #888 -
Blacklisted types were incorrectly assumed to always be
Copy
able (and assumed to implement other traits as well).bindgen
is now conservatively pessimistic about the traits that blacklisted types implement. #944 -
When bitfields have a ridiculously large number of bits (for example,
unsigned : 632;
) thenbindgen
was incorrectly deriving traits that couldn't be derived, resulting in errors when compiling the bindings, and was also generatingstruct
s with an incorrect layout. Both issues have been fixed. #982 -
_
is a valid identifier in some C++ contexts, but can't be referenced in Rust, as it is the "throwaway identifier" (a term I just made up, if you use it now, then you owe me money).bindgen
will now translate_
into__
so that it can be used on the Rust side. #1008 -
Nested class definitions were sometimes being emitted in the wrong namespace module in the generated bindings. #1048
-
bindgen
was mis-handlingunion
s that contained bitfield members. This has been fixed. #744 -
Unsigned constants that were greater than
u32::MAX
were being mis-translated bybindgen
. This is now fixed. #1040 -
When given a directory as an input file, or a file to which we don't have read permissions, then
bindgen
will print a more useful error message now. #1029 -
bindgen
previously attempted to deriveHash
for structures with flexibly-sized array members, but knowing how many elements exist in such arrays requires program-specific knowledge thatbindgen
cannot have. #1094
Released 2017/08/28
- Explicit control over choosing which Rust version (specific stable versions or nightly Rust) to target. This defaults to the latest stable Rust version. #832
bindgen::Builder::default()
.rust_target(bindgen::RustTarget::Stable_1_19)
// or `.rust_target(bindgen::RustTarget::Nightly)` to use unstable features
or
$ bindgen --rust-target 1.19
# or `--rust-target nightly` to use unstable features
-
Started adding
derive(Copy)
for large arrays ofCopy
things, even when the array is too large toderive(Clone)
because Rust doesn't implementClone
for arrays of length greater than 32. #874 -
bindgen
can now determine which types are hashable and addderive(Hash)
to those types that support it. This is disabled by default, but can be enabled viabindgen::Builder::derive_hash
or--with-derive-hash
. #876 -
bindgen
can now generateimpl Debug for Blah
trait implementations for types that contain non-Debug
types, and therefore cannotderive(Debug)
. This behavior can be enabled withbindgen::Builder::impl_debug
and--impl-debug
. #875 -
bindgen
can now invokerustfmt
on the generated bindings. The bindings have historically been fairly pretty printed, but sometimes this is not the case, especially with the newimpl Debug for Blah
feature. Havebindgen
runrustfmt
withbindgen::Builder::rustfmt_bindings
and--rustfmt-bindings
, and use non-defaultrustfmt
configuration files withbindgen::Builder::rustfmt_configuration_file
and--rustfmt-configuration-file
. #900 -
bindgen
can now determine which types can be compared with==
and addderive(PartialEq)
to those types that support it. This is disabled by default, but can be enabled viabindgen::Builder::derive_partialeq
or--with-derive-partialeq
. #878 -
Additionally,
bindgen
can also addderive(Eq)
to those types which we determined we couldderive(PartialEq)
and do not transitively contain any floats. Enable this behavior withbindgen::Builder::derive_eq
or--with-derive-eq
. #880
-
Started emitting Rust
union
s when targeting stable Rust >= 1.19, not just unstable nightly Rust. #832 -
Emitted layout
#[test]
s no longer contain internal IDs for template instantiations including pointers and arrays. This should make generated bindings more stable across updates to unrelated parts of the input headers. #871 -
Determining whether a type can derive
Copy
or not was ported from an ad-hoc algorithm to our fix-point framework. #766 -
Determining whether a type has a destructor or not was also ported from an ad-hoc algorithm to our fix-point framework. #927
bindgen::Builder::unstable_rust
/--unstable-rust
is deprecated, in favor of targeting explicit Rust versions withbindgen::Builder::rust_target
/--rust-target
instead. #832
-
Fixed a regression in the
derive(Default)
analysis that resulted in some opaque types derivingDefault
when they shouldn't have. #889 -
Fixed a regression where template instantiation layout
#[test]
s were being generated with invalid Rust identifiers. #906
Released 2017/07/31
-
"Constified enum modules" translating C/C++
enum
s into constants within a module for namespacing, rather than mangling the name of the generated constants.For example, it turns this:
// bindgen-flags: --constified-enum-module PetKind enum PetKind { Doggo, Kitty, Hamster }; struct Pet { PetKind kind; char* noise; };
Into this:
/* automatically generated by rust-bindgen */ pub mod PetKind { pub type Type = ::std::os::raw::c_uint; pub const Doggo: Type = 0; pub const Kitty: Type = 1; pub const Hamster: Type = 2; } #[repr(C)] #[derive(Debug, Copy)] pub struct Pet { pub kind: PetKind::Type, pub noise: *mut ::std::os::raw::c_char, }
The default translation strategy for
enum
s will generate constants with names likePetKind_Hamster
instead.Use
bindgen::Builder::constified_enum_module
or--constified-enum-module
. -
You can now mark particular template instantiations as "opaque", so that
bindgen
emits a blob of bytes with the correct size and alignment rather than creating generic Rust types. This is useful as a workaround for when a template has a specialization for the given type arguments, whichbindgen
does not yet support. Previously, it was all of a templates' instantiations would be opaque or none of them would be. Usebindgen::Builder::opaque_type("SomeTemplate<Foo, Bar>")
or--opaque-type "SomeTemplate<Foo, Bar>"
. -
Added the ability to preprocess and dump the input headers given to
bindgen
to a file. This should make creating reproducible, system independent, standalone test cases much easier! Bring on the new issues! Usebindgen::Builder::dump_preprocessed_input
or--dump-preprocessed-input
. -
We now use a fix-point analysis to determine whether any given type can derive
Debug
, or whether it has an explicit virtual table pointer. Previously we were using an ad-hoc algorithm that had at various times suffered from things like going into infinite loops when coming across cycles. Hopefully those kinds of bugs are a thing of the past! #767 #765
- The
bindgen
repository has moved under therust-lang-nursery
umbrella! The new repository URL is https://github.com/rust-lang-nursery/rust-bindgen 🎉
-
No longer generating layout tests for template instantiations using type arguments that we didn't generate bindings for (which then caused compilation errors). #679
-
Fixed function name mangling when cross compiling bindings for iOS. #776
-
Don't include parent
inline namespace
s' names in types' names. Names of types from some STLs were showing up likestd___cxx11_basic_string
when they should have beenstd_basic_string
. #789 -
Fixed a bug where we wouldn't generate type definitions for some types referenced by an opaque type's methods, causing compilation errors. #807
-
Fixed function name mangling issues for win32 targets. #819
-
Fixed a bug where
bindgen
was generating a generic type alias that didn't use its type parameter, which is illegal Rust code and caused compilation errors. #820 -
The generated size, alignment, and field offset unit tests now have stable names rather than sometimes including an internal identifier which is inherently unstable. This was causing unnecessary diffs when folks were checking in new versions of bindings into their VCS. #394
-
Fixed a bug where we would try and
derive(Debug, Default)
on structs that had padding like[u8; 33]
, which is larger than the largest array length for which Rust will derive traits. This would cause compilation errors when compiling the emitted bindings. #648