c-for-go | Automatic C-Go Bindings Generator for Go Programming Language

c-for-go is a Go library. c-for-go has no bugs, it has no vulnerabilities, it has a Permissive License and it has medium support. You can download it from GitHub.

The only component required to produce a Go package that will wrap the source C/C++ code is the YAML manifest file that defines parsing, translation and generation rules. The manifest can have just a few lines, however in order to match Go's naming conventions and provide enough tips for type conversions it usually contains about 100 lines, which is still better than producing tens of thousands lines of Go code by hand. The resulting bindings are as low-level as C code, i.e. it would require knowledge of memory management to carefully use the resulting code, however no more C code is needed to make things done. Eventually some functions can be replaced manually with pure-Go analogs. Also usually a high-level wrapper is created by hand, to introduce Object Oriented Design into API, manage inner state and memory, thus making things safe and lifting the mental overhead. Full documentation is available at