Interface to C functions on mruby. it's based on libffi.

Build status

Install

It's mrbgems.

When you use in your project, please add below to your build_config.rb.

  conf.gem 'path/to/here' do |g|
    # g.use_pkg_config # use pkg-config for libffi linking
    # g.download_libffi # download and link latest libffi
    # if your libffi is installed in a non standard path
    # g.cc.include_paths << '[...]/include'
    # g.linker.library_paths << '[...]/lib'
  end

If you want to run tests, please run below command.

make test

Windows

To compile on windows you have to provie dlfcn-win32 libraray.

install ruby from rubyinstaller.org - get newest with devkit, 64bit
after installing run as admin:

ridk install 1 2 3

run msys2 console & install library:

pacman -S mingw-w64-x86_64-dlfcn

active ridk ruby build system by adding at the top of you Rakefile line:

ruby RubyInstaller::Runtime.enable_msys_apps

then add to your build_config.rb - to build libffi & link it staically:

MRuby::Build.new do |conf|
  toolchain :gcc
  conf.gem mgem: "cfunc" do |gem|
    gem.download_libffi
    gem.linker.flags << "-static"
  end
  # ... rest of build_config.rb
end

now you can build mruby with cfunc mgem! :)

Todo

Test!
Improve error handling
Support anonymous struct
Examples
Documents

Contributing

Feel free to open tickets or send pull requests with improvements. Thanks in advance for your help!

Authors