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coreaudio-sys

Raw bindings to the OSX CoreAudio framework generated by bindgen (see coreaudio-rs for a more rust-esque wrapper).

Latest version: 0.2.17 registry icon
Maintenance score
31
Safety score
100
Popularity score
75
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Security
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Version Suggest Low Medium High Critical
0.2.17 0 0 0 0 0
0.2.16 0 0 0 0 0
0.2.15 0 0 0 0 0
0.2.14 0 0 0 0 0
0.2.13 0 0 0 0 0
0.2.12 0 0 0 0 0
0.2.11 0 0 0 0 0
0.2.10 0 0 0 0 0
0.2.9 0 0 0 0 0
0.2.8 0 0 0 0 0
0.2.7 0 0 0 0 0
0.2.6 0 0 0 0 0
0.2.5 0 0 0 0 0
0.2.4 0 0 0 0 0
0.2.3 0 0 0 0 0
0.2.2 0 0 0 0 0
0.2.1 0 0 0 0 0
0.2.0 0 0 0 0 0
0.1.2 0 0 0 0 0
0.1.1 0 0 0 0 0
0.1.0 0 0 0 0 0
0.0.2 0 0 0 0 0
0.0.1 0 0 0 0 0

Stability
Latest release:

0.2.17 - This version may not be safe as it has not been updated for a long time. Find out if your coding project uses this component and get notified of any reported security vulnerabilities with Meterian-X Open Source Security Platform

Licensing

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MIT   -   MIT License

Not a wildcard

Not proprietary

OSI Compliant

Maintenance Status

This project is not really accepting new features without a very strong use case. The primary consumer of this repo has been coreaudio-rs however coreaudio-rs has moved to use objc2 generated bindings. In the nearly 6 years that @simlay has been maintaining this repo, the majority of these PRs have been bindgen updates and build issues with Xcode/macOS updating clang.

@simlay will accept PRs for fixes of the build should an Xcode/macOS update break things.

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Raw bindings to Apple's Core Audio API for macos and iOS generated using rust-bindgen. coreaudio-rs is an attempt at offering a higher level API around this crate.

Cross Compiling

Rust Cross has a good explanation of how cross-compiling Rust works in general. While the author of Rust Cross advises against it, it is perfectly possible to cross-compile Rust for MacOS on Linux. OSXCross can be used to create a compiler toolchain that can compile for MacOS on Linux.

Environment Variables

When cross-compiling for MacOS on Linux there are two environment variables that are used to configure how coreaudio-sys finds the required headers and libraries. The following examples assume that you have OSXCross installed at /build/osxcross.

COREAUDIO_SDK_PATH

This tell coreaudio-sys where to find the MacOS SDK:

export COREAUDIO_SDK_PATH=/build/osxcross/target/SDK/MacOSX10.11.sdk