I overjoyed to tell you that I will spend my summers working with the Xorg community as part of Google Summer of Code. I will be working on DRM subsystem of the Linux kernel. I will be mentored by Christian König for this project.
Today I published my first library on crates.io, evdev-rs. evdev-rs is a wrapper around libevdev in Rust. It provides us the facility to deal with input devices in a safe way. This post will serve as a tutorial to get started with evdev-rs.
In the last post, we looked at how we can write a crate which allows raw access to C functions. In this post, we will write a safe abstraction for this crate. We will be using a part of evdev-sys as an example to see how to write the wrapper functions.
I started learning rust early December, and the best way to learn a language is to use it. So I started looking for a project in rust and hopefully I was able to find a project which was writing bindings for libevdev in rust. There are a few blogs which talk about bindings but there were certain aspects that this blogs didn’t cover and I had to do some digging myself to get the answers. This aim of this post is to help anyone who wants to write bindings for a C library in rust.
The semester got a whole lot busy after my last post. Hence I was not able to write. Now Since the semester is over you can expect some posts. This post describes my work implementing DRI3 helper code for PRIME hardware.