avahi-sys

Rust bindings to Avahi's libavahi-client for zero-configuration networking with mDNS/DNS-SD.

For API documentation refer to http://www.avahi.org/doxygen/html/index.html

Prerequisites

These bindings use bindgen to parse the library's C headers, which requires that Clang be available at build-time. Refer to the bindgen documentation for more information.

The Avahi library headers must also be available in your C compiler's default include search path. In most situations this should be a simple matter of installing it with your system's package manager.

Internals

Because the Avahi API exposes some types that are not primitives but are part of the C library, functions and types in the bindings are whitelisted where they should be exposed. Others like pollfd or timeval are explicitly referenced from libc so a common type can be used in API consumers rather than translating to an internal instance of the C library types.