Generate ctru-sys as part of the build system

[linkmauve]

Have a look at rust-bindgen, it can create -sys crates automatically from headers, which will alleviate a good part of your work.

[linkmauve]

Actually, I didn’t see it was already generated, my request then is to make it automated as part of the build system, or at least documenting how to update it.

[panicbit]

IIRC we opted for generating them only when needed to stay in sync with a specific libctru release.

I have a script for citro3d-sys to generate bindings, which I will probably port over for libctru-sys. It might even make sense to use some sort of Rust task runner like cargo-make or even just cargo-script instead (to get away from platform dependant scripts).

[linkmauve]

It was exactly for citro3d that I wanted to use this. :)
I’ll wait for your release then, thanks!

[panicbit]

citro3d is a bit of a pain to port to safe Rust, but I intended to at least release a sys crate

[panicbit]

Here you go: https://github.com/rust3ds/citro3d-sys

I didn't manage to verify that the crate still builds properly because ctru-rs doesn't build for me right now and I have no time to figure out why.

[FenrirWolf]

For the record, this is the build script I used to generate ctru-sys locally last time I updated it: https://github.com/FenrirWolf/ctru-rs/blob/bindgen/ctru-sys/build.rs

We definitely could generate the bindings at build-time by default instead of checking them in manually, but the trade-off there is that running bindgen increases compile times and adds a dependency on clang.