Create safe LLVM bindings

Question

Create safe LLVM bindings

steveklabnik opened this issue 10 years ago · 7 comments

Issue by brson
Saturday Aug 03, 2013 at 23:15 GMT

For earlier discussion, see rust-lang/rust#8274

This issue was labelled with: A-libs, A-llvm, E-tedious in the Rust repository

rustc's LLVM bindings are a bit of a hodgepodge. Some abstractions have been added on top of the C bindings, but not consistently. It would be nice to do some serious cleanup here so that rustc is using only safe, high-level bindings.

Answer 1 · 2015-09-02T22:04:01.000Z

I've started work on safe LLVM bindings recently [1]. The work is in the very beginning (only small part of API is covered). My bindigs use llvm-sys [2] as unsafe bindings (not ones from rustc). Comments and pull requests are welcome. When something lacks in LLVM C API, I add wrappers for it and I have plans to push these wrappers upstream.

[1] https://github.com/jauhien/iron-llvm
[2] https://bitbucket.org/tari/llvm-sys.rs

Answer 2 · 2015-09-03T03:28:45.000Z

There are also some other projects that are doing this:

Answer 3 · 2016-02-09T12:52:56.000Z

Any news on this topic?

Answer 4 · 2017-06-18T19:07:57.000Z

I am working on some rust ideomatic LLVM bindings right now: https://github.com/vaartis/llvm-rs

Answer 5 · 2017-07-05T20:04:46.000Z

I am working on Inkwell which is a safe wrapper over llvm-sys. It's still early on, but I've got some neat ideas for providing a more pleasant and type-safe interface. Contributors are welcome :)

Answer 6 · 2018-04-09T01:15:31.000Z

Any progress here? 😅

Answer 7 · 2018-10-07T11:15:00.000Z

Closing in favor of the tracking issue rust-lang/rust#54892.