[Need help] gir has trouble with the sys bindings for Nemo-3.0

[ItzSwirlz]

Hi!

I'm trying to make bindings for the Nemo gir, or libnemo-extension. After a lot of fiddling (and wondering why creating a Nemo Column causes a double free), I realized that it made sense my test failed (I tried it on XApp and it worked) - gir cannot generate the sys. I see why-it generates functions that are used in the Nemo extension (Nemo extensions are .so files, so they are dynamic libs. Technically, a typical C extension is direct C sys calls and that's what I'm fighting with here)

Is someone able to guide me towards fixing sys generation errors?

Thanks

Nemo: https://github.com/Ubuntu-Cinnamon-Remix/nemo-rust
XApp: https://github.com/Ubuntu-Cinnamon-Remix/xapp-rust

(both repos have examples/me trying valiantly to test)

[bilelmoussaoui]

Would you give more details about what fails exactly? any errors ?Which command you didn't run?

[ItzSwirlz]

Sorry, I worded this poorly.

Would you give more details about what fails exactly? any errors ?Which command you didn't run?

cargo test

When generating the Rust side of the bindings, a few of the objects are missing mem management, but that's probably a fault in the Nemo source code.

I ran everything possible, I fiddled with the settings, the only fix would be to manually include the header files in the test folder.

I have had luck with another plugin library, similar to Nemo. Gedit's plugin system: https://github.com/Ubuntu-Cinnamon-Remix/gedit-rust . Since this Gir is also made with the intent of compiling to a dynamic library, this may just be because of the actual source code.