Nice work Alex, Look fwd to digging through these on my return from holidays.
All the best, Julian On Tue, 30 Jul 2019 at 16:57, x nor <[email protected]> wrote: > This is very much still a work in progress, but recently I've been working > on writing pure data externals in Rust and I figured I'd share: > > https://github.com/x37v/puredata-rust > > Rust can create dynamic libraries that can be loaded in C based projects > without the need for any external build tools, building simply uses rusts > `cargo` build system (and package manager). > I've setup the automatic binding to `m_pd.h` (puredata-sys), some ease of > use classes for creating externals, and a macro that generates a bunch of > boiler plate code so you don't have to. > > With this I've created Rust versions of the 4 example externals from the > HOWTO: > https://github.com/pure-data/externals-howto > https://github.com/x37v/puredata-rust/tree/develop/examples > > With the help of a macro and attributes, beyond the dependency setup, this > is all you need to write a signal external: > > https://github.com/x37v/puredata-rust/blob/develop/examples/xfade/src/lib.rs > or a control external: > > https://github.com/x37v/puredata-rust/blob/develop/examples/complex_counter/src/lib.rs > > Anyways, I figured I'd share in case anyone else is interested, maybe > wants to contribute or just use it themselves. > I'm tired/done with c/c++ and Rust has presented itself as a great > alternative for a lot of situations. > It was fun to discover that I can generate pure data externals with Rust > and its build system. > > --Alex > _______________________________________________ > Pd-dev mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-dev >
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