Using Rust to compile a dynamic library to be used in Python with cffi.

This was inspired by an example by Yehuda Katz. see http://blog.skylight.io/bending-the-curve-writing-safe-fast-native-gems-with-rust

I used cffi for python to load the library and added a deallocator free_point(). To make sure there are no memory leaks i also added a little test in C to test with valgrind.

Dependencies:

• Rust Compiler ( I used 0.12.0-nightly )
• C Compiler for test and cffi (gcc or clang)
• cffi module ( $ pip install cffi )
• Python
• valgrind for memory check (optional)

Usage:

Use

$ make

to make the library and the test program

$ make lib

to only make the library

$ make test

to make the test program

$ make memcheck

to run the test program with valgrind and check for memory errors

Finally run

$ python load_libpoint.py

to use it

Created 2014/10/09 by Lutz Paelike