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refactor the C and Go wrapper build system - moved "nimbus/api" to "wrappers" - renamed files - replaced the build scripts with Makefile targets - set the rpath relative to the test binary's location so it can look for libnimbus.so there at runtime - libnimbus.so.0 required on Linux, apparently - compiled all the Nimbus code with `--app:lib`, not just one file (this required skipping a proc in "nimbus/config.nim" because it uses an API that's unavailable in libraries) - removed static linking from the Go wrapper. It doesn't make sense at a global level, when using a shared Nimbus library. To selectively link static libraries, we should probably be specifying them as *.a. I did build a static libnimbus.a, as a test, but it insisted on dlopen-ing a shared version of itself which looked too ugly to continue.
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This folder contains an experimental C wrapper for using parts of the Nimbus
code from C/Go in the Status console client:
https://github.com/status-im/status-console-client/
It serves mainly as a proof-of-concept for now - there are several unresolved
issues surrounding threading, inter-language communication, callbacks etc.
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To build the wrappers and the example programs, run from the top level directory:
refactor the C and Go wrapper build system - moved "nimbus/api" to "wrappers" - renamed files - replaced the build scripts with Makefile targets - set the rpath relative to the test binary's location so it can look for libnimbus.so there at runtime - libnimbus.so.0 required on Linux, apparently - compiled all the Nimbus code with `--app:lib`, not just one file (this required skipping a proc in "nimbus/config.nim" because it uses an API that's unavailable in libraries) - removed static linking from the Go wrapper. It doesn't make sense at a global level, when using a shared Nimbus library. To selectively link static libraries, we should probably be specifying them as *.a. I did build a static libnimbus.a, as a test, but it insisted on dlopen-ing a shared version of itself which looked too ugly to continue.
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```bash
make wrappers
```
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Now you can run the example programs:
refactor the C and Go wrapper build system - moved "nimbus/api" to "wrappers" - renamed files - replaced the build scripts with Makefile targets - set the rpath relative to the test binary's location so it can look for libnimbus.so there at runtime - libnimbus.so.0 required on Linux, apparently - compiled all the Nimbus code with `--app:lib`, not just one file (this required skipping a proc in "nimbus/config.nim" because it uses an API that's unavailable in libraries) - removed static linking from the Go wrapper. It doesn't make sense at a global level, when using a shared Nimbus library. To selectively link static libraries, we should probably be specifying them as *.a. I did build a static libnimbus.a, as a test, but it insisted on dlopen-ing a shared version of itself which looked too ugly to continue.
2019-07-31 11:54:48 +00:00
```bash
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build/C_wrapper_example
build/go_wrapper_example
refactor the C and Go wrapper build system - moved "nimbus/api" to "wrappers" - renamed files - replaced the build scripts with Makefile targets - set the rpath relative to the test binary's location so it can look for libnimbus.so there at runtime - libnimbus.so.0 required on Linux, apparently - compiled all the Nimbus code with `--app:lib`, not just one file (this required skipping a proc in "nimbus/config.nim" because it uses an API that's unavailable in libraries) - removed static linking from the Go wrapper. It doesn't make sense at a global level, when using a shared Nimbus library. To selectively link static libraries, we should probably be specifying them as *.a. I did build a static libnimbus.a, as a test, but it insisted on dlopen-ing a shared version of itself which looked too ugly to continue.
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```
libnimbus.a and statically linked wrapper examples
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To build statically linked versions:
```bash
make wrappers-static
```