iroh-ffi

Foreign Function Interface (FFI) bindings for Iroh

This repo defines Python & Swift bindings for iroh, which is written in Rust.

Published Packages:

Python Swift

Planned Support:

We're hoping to ship support for the following langauges in the future

• Kotlin

Library Compilation

Running cargo build --release will produce a dynamic library and a static library.

For builds targeting older versions of MacOS, build with with: MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET=10.7 && cargo build --target x86_64-apple-darwin --release.

Swift

Xcode and IOS

• Run make_swift.sh.
• Add IrohLib as a local package dependency under Frameworks, Libraries, and Embedded Content in the General settings of your project.
• Run Build
• Check that it is now listed under Frameworks, Libraries, and Embedded Content, if not click + again and add it from the list.
• Add SystemConfiguration as a Framework.
• Now you can just import the library in Swift with a standard import statement like import IrohLib.

Python

• Install maturin for python development and packaging.
• Install uniffi-bindgen with pip
• maturin develop will build your package
• maturin expects you to use virtualenv to manage your virtual environment

Building wheels

Invoking maturin build will build a wheel in target/wheels. This will likely only work on your specific platform. To build a portable wheel for linux use:

docker run --rm -v $(pwd):/mnt -w /mnt quay.io/pypa/manylinux2014_x86_64 /mnt/build-wheel.sh

Example

• Make sure the iroh is installed pip install iroh
• Run with python3 main.py --help

Go

Running

To make sure everything go needs to find is included the following is needed

LD_LIBRARY_PATH="${LD_LIBRARY_PATH:-}:<binaries path>" \
CGO_LDFLAGS="-liroh -L <binaries path>" \
go <actual go command to build or run>

where <binaries path needs to be replaced with the absolute path to where the rust build output is. Eg /<path to repo>/iroh-ffi/target/debug in debug mode.

Updating the bindings

Install uniffi-bindgen-go:

cargo install uniffi-bindgen-go --git https://github.com/dignifiedquire/uniffi-bindgen-go --branch upgarde-uniffi-24

Developers

Check our our DEVELOPERS.md for guides on how to translate from the iroh rust API to the iroh FFI API, as well as how to set up testing for golang and python.

License

This project is licensed under either of

• Apache License, Version 2.0, (LICENSE-APACHE or http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0)
• MIT license (LICENSE-MIT or http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT)

at your option.

Contribution

Unless you explicitly state otherwise, any contribution intentionally submitted for inclusion in this project by you, as defined in the Apache-2.0 license, shall be dual licensed as above, without any additional terms or conditions.