libparasail-sys

This crate provides unsafe Rust bindings for parasail. libparasail-sys builds the parasail C library and uses bindgen to generate Rust bindings. Safe bindings are planned and will be available in the future.

Note that parasail-sys similarly provides unsafe Rust bindings, but has been archived since 2020. The goal of libparasail-sys is to provide a more up-to-date set of bindings for parasail.

Building

The parasail C library is built using the preferred autools-based method. You will need a compatible toolchain for these steps. Note that you may have to run autoreconf -fi to generate the autotools files since the GitHub repositories do not include them. Assuming you have cargo setup, you can build libparasail-sys to check that the bindings compile with cargo build.

Testing

Bindgen provides tests to verify that the layout, size, and alignment of the generated FFI structs match what bindgen thinks they should be. To check, run cargo test. Assuming no modification has been made to the bindings.rs, this should pass successfully. This crate has been tested with cargo 1.77.0-nightly.

Contributing

Contributions are more than welcome. Please file an issue if you have any trouble with this crate. You can also send an email for other issues or feedback at nsb5 [at] rice.edu.

License

libparasail-sys is licensed under the BSD-3-clause license, however, parasail is licensed under a very similar Batelle BSD-style license and was developed by Jeff Daily along with other contributors.

Nicolas Buitrago <nsb5@rice.edu>