purego-gen

purego-gen is a tool to generate pure Go function wrappers to syscalls thanks to purego and jen.

This is a big work in progress, and also an experiment.

Description

This tool uses https://github.com/ebitengine/purego to generate wrappers to C functions using purego.SyscallN.

Installation

go install github.com/Zyko0/purego-gen/cmd/purego-gen

Usage

The input file must declare all go functions definitions and the necesssary types. There are a few custom directives starting with //puregogen: such as:

• //puregogen:library path=opencl path:windows=opencl32.dll alias=cl
  • path:<os> specifies the path to the library based on the operating system
    • path can also be used
  • alias is the library alias for variables naming, if none specified it might be inferred from the library name.
• //puregogen:function symbol=clCreateDevice
  • symbol allows to set the symbol for the function below it if it is not named after the symbol already

There is a partial example about opencl in the examples directory, examples/functions.go is the input file. And the examples/functions_impl.go is generated via go run cmd/purego-gen --input ./examples/functions.go

Usage of purego-gen:
  --dry
        Outputs the generated code to stdout instead of a file
  --embed-loaders
        Generate a single file by linking unexported loading methods from ebitengine/purego
  --input string
        The input .go file to parse
  --no-warnings
        Prevent printing warnings to sderr
  --platforms string
        A list of comma separated platforms supported for library loading (defaults to: "windows,linux,darwin,freebsd")

TBD

• Support the --embed-loaders flag (or the non flag actually, to output multiple _os.go files for libraries loading)
• Support additional types
  • floats
  • structs
  • functions returned