[kelnos]

How is that not simple? You just declare the function and then call it. I find it hard to imagine how it could be any more simple than that.

[varjag]

Now imagine a hundred or two functions, structures and callbacks, some of them exposed only as CPP macros over internal implementation. PJSIP low level API is one example.

[lambda]

But... that's what bindgen is for. Which I mentioned.

I said it "can be quite simple"; for simple use cases, just using extern and translating the declarations by hand is perfectly viable.

For more complex cases, you use bindgen.

[varjag]

Bindings generators exist in most other languages with same limitations.

I would love to see how bindgen would handle a function call defined as a preprocessor macro that I mentioned. Because most likely it won't.

[googh]

Can someone shed some light on why the parent comment (by varjag) is downvoted?