winapi-rs

Rust bindings to Windows API

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Vtables are pretty solved as well. I do a lot of Windows COM interop. Using the `windows` crate, vtables for COM interfaces are relegated to an implementation detail - instead you simply implement a (typically safe!) trait: https://microsoft.github.io/windows-docs-rs/doc/windows/Win3... Which can then be converted to a refcounted smart pointer: https://microsoft.github.io/windows-docs-rs/doc/windows/Win3... All driven by win32 sdk parsing and metadata. But suppose we want to roll our own, because we tend to prefer `winapi` but it lacks definition. That's not too terrible either: • https://github.com/MaulingMonkey/thindx-xaudio2/blob/master/... • https://github.com/MaulingMonkey/thindx-xaudio2/blob/master/... • https://github.com/MaulingMonkey/thindx-xaudio2/blob/master/... I could more heavily lean on my macros ala `windows`, but I wen

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t the route of manual control for better doc comments, more explicit control of thread safety traits to match the existing C++ codebase, etc. Is there some pointer casting? Yes. Is it annoying or likely to be what breaks? No. What is annoying? • Stacked borrows and narrowing spatial provenance ( https://github.com/retep998/winapi-rs/issues/1025 - this can be "solved" by sticking to pointers ala `windows`, or by choosing a different provenance model like rustc might be doing?) • Guarding against panics unwinding over an FFI boundary. This is at least being worked on, but remains unfinished ( https://rust-lang.github.io/rfcs/2945-c-unwind-abi.html ) • Edge case ABI weirdness specific to C++ methods ( https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20220113-00/?p=10... , https://github.com/retep998/winapi-rs/issues/523 )