Are there any plans to add c binding ?

Question

Are there any plans to add c binding ?

xuxbuptisc opened this issue 3 years ago · comments

gimli is a great dwarf library, are there any plans to add c binding?

Philip Craig · Answer 1 · Fri Aug 27 2021 05:31:53 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

No plans. Before doing such work, there would need to be significant reasons to use gimli over the existing C/C++ libraries that are more feature complete and more widely tested. Currently gimli's main feature is that it is written in Rust and provides an API that is suitable for Rust, and calling it from C means you lose some of the benefit of that.

Alexander Ivanov · Answer 2 · Mon Oct 31 2022 20:14:39 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

Another reason(the one I am using it for) is for commercial projects: indeed, libdwarf seems to be LGPL, but this requires still more than the licenses of your library

Philip Craig · Answer 3 · Mon Oct 31 2022 20:52:49 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

LLVM is Apache 2.0, perhaps it is suitable.