How did the C binding created?

[sugarme]

@rcalixte ,

Great work. As the title says, how were the C bindings created? Did you do manually or were there any tools, code-generators?

I saw somewhere in here:

libqt6c/include/libqt6c.h

Line 1 in d9dd1d9

// THIS FILE IS AUTOMATICALLY GENERATED

, so there maybe some auto-gen somewhere that I missed?

It would be great if you could share, as I am trying to port some C++ library to C -> Zig and could learn from your work.

Thanks!

[rcalixte]

Hi! Thanks for the interest!

As the title says, how were the C bindings created? Did you do manually or were there any tools, code-generators?

The code generation is under cmd/genbindings. This is based on the same from miqt. These are highly fine-tuned for Qt but could probably be ported for other purposes.

It would be great if you could share, as I am trying to port some C++ library to C -> Zig and could learn from your work.

This sounds very cool! You might want to peek at libqt6zig for something that sounds like it fits what you're looking for a little bit better? You can compare the build.zig files from the C and Zig libraries for the differences. The only caveat is that I need to do some work on proper cross-compilation and cross-platform support but other than that, I think it should be helpful for you!