KBindgen is an WIP library which allows developers to generate native bindings for Kotlin/Native and Kotlin/JVM that can be loaded dynamically at runtime for Kotlin-Multiplatform by specifying C headers (with Clang's tooling library). This code comes in the following modules:
- (embeddable) generator application (used in the Gradle plugin)
- Gradle plugin wrapping the generation tooling and some parts of the compilation (especially for the JNI glue code)
The core element of KBindgen is the LLVM compiler toolchain, especially Clang's tooling library. It analyzes the specified headers and converts them into convertible object models. These models can be translated into
- Kotlin/JVM code with JNI interop glue code for calling these functions by pointer,
- Kotlin/Native code with CInterop types for some compatibility.
Without the wonderful work of the following people, my work on this project would have been much more difficult.
- The
dflcnCInterop logic of KBindgen is directly copied from multiplatform-dlfcn by KitsuneAlex (his project is licensed under Apache License 2.0) - The LWJGL3 LLVM bindings by the LWJGL team (this project is licensed under the BSD 3-Clause License)
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