transformersprimeabcxyz/cppsharp

Tools to surface C++ APIs to C#

CppSharp is a collection of libraries for working with C++ code from .NET.

It has multiple use cases, from parsing C++ code to automatically generating .NET bindings for wrapping C/C++ native code allowing interoperability with managed languages like C#.

This can be used to consume an existing native library in your managed code or add scripting support to a native codebase.

Build Status

windows-vs-x86	linux-gcc-x86_64	osx-clang-x86

Libraries

Generator

• Multiple backends: C++/CLI and C# P/Invoke
• Multiple ABIs: Itanium, MS, ARM, iOS and iOS64
• Multiple platforms: Windows, OS X and Linux
• Virtual table overriding support
• Multiple inheritance support
• Easily extensible semantics via user passes
• Work-in-progress support for STL (C++/CLI only)
• Strongly-typed customization APIs and type maps

AST

Mirrors the Clang's C++ AST and type system classes in C# APIs.

Check out Clang's AST introduction docs if you're not familiar with the architecture.

• C++ declarations
• C++ types
• Class object layout
• Declaration visitors
• Type visitors

Parser

Provides APIs for parsing C++ source code.

• Parsing of C++ source code
• Parsing of libraries archives symbols
• Parsing of shared libraries symbols
• Based on the very accurate Clang C++ parser.

Documentation

Please see the following resources for more information:

Getting Started

User's Manual

Developer's Manual

Community

Mailing list: Google group

News

2nd, June 2015: We're having three students contributing to the project this summer, as part of Google Summer of Code.

• Alexandre Esteves (@afesteves)
• Dimitar Dobrev (@ddobrev)
• Abhinav Tripathi (@genuinelucifer)

Support

For professional services related to building custom wrappers and consulting please contact @ddobrev (dpldobrev at yahoo dot com).