Rust Support

[meawoppl]

Hey all,

Great library. I have implemented a nearly complete Rust wrapper for the C api, and I was curious if you all had any interest in hosting it here. In some fashion. I only have one device to test against, so my coverage is likely woefully low in some senses.
Do you all have some form of HIL testing you do to keep this library working?

In parallel, I have discovered a large number of (small) docs issues that I will contribute in either case. Let me know on the above, and thanks again for maintaining this.

[drebbe-intrepid]

@meawoppl This is great news! I would love to see it and more details on it.

I'm in process of refactoring the C API to make it easier to maintain going forward and easily support other languages in the process. https://github.com/intrepidcs/libicsneo/blob/icsneo_api/include/icsneo/icsneo.h. My ultimate end goal was to create an API that would "just work" with C#, rust, zig, and go by "importing" the header.

[meawoppl]

Lovely...is there a way to use a .so with these calls instead? I don't see it in the build artifacts at time of writing.

[drebbe-intrepid]

@meawoppl in your cmake build directory if you are using icsneo_api branch you'll have a libicsneo.so and libicsneo-static.a generated. The name is still pending and there are things that are broken.

I did a simple test against this branch with bindgen and it seemed to generate correct bindings so far. I'm about 80% done with creating the APIs.

[drebbe-intrepid]

@meawoppl I've completed a basic proof of concept for this new API and have a "functional" test cargo project here: https://github.com/intrepidcs/libicsneo/blob/icsneo_api/bindings/rust/icsneors/src/lib.rs

This is only binding generation and all unsafe currently. The "safe" layer still needs to be done and we are open to any feedback or recommendations including the work you have already done if you'd like to share it.