riverar / washington-rs

Sample project demonstrating a complete MIDL to Rust workflow

Sample Rust for Washington SDK crate

Notes

• .metadata contains a metadata-generating MSBuild project (start poking around here!)
• .windows/winmd is the output target for the metadata project
• crates/samples/impl demonstrates consuming the library crate
• build.rs generates Rust bindings from metadata and outputs to src/bindings.rs

Building metadata

1. Install the latest production .NET SDK.
2. Open a Developer Command Prompt for Visual Studio
3. Navigate to .metadata folder
4. Issue command: dotnet build

Generating Rust crate

1. Ensure metadata is available in .windows/winmd
2. cargo build

Additional resources/examples

• Generating metadata for use with the windows crate for Rust https://withinrafael.com/2023/01/18/generating-metadata-for-the-windows-crate
• Rust for DIA SDK https://github.com/microsoft/dia-rs/
• Win32 Metadata https://github.com/microsoft/win32metadata
  • Microsoft.Windows.WinmdGenerator https://github.com/microsoft/win32metadata/tree/main/sources/GeneratorSdk