How To Install cbindgen on Ubuntu 22.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install cbindgen
on Ubuntu 22.04.
What is cbindgen
cbindgen is:
cbindgen can be used to generate C bindings for Rust code. It is currently being developed to support creating bindings for WebRender (by Mozilla for Firefox), but has been designed to support any project.
Features:
- Builds bindings for a crate, its mods, its dependent crates, and their mods
- Only the necessary types for exposed functions are given bindings
- Can specify annotations for controlling some aspects of binding
- Support for generic structs and unions
- Support for exporting constants and statics
- Customizable formatting, can be used in C or C++ projects
- Support for generating #ifdef’s for #[cfg] attributes
- Support for #[repr(sized)] tagged enum’s
There are three methods to install cbindgen
on Ubuntu 22.04. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install cbindgen Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install cbindgen
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install cbindgen
Install cbindgen Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install cbindgen
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install cbindgen
Install cbindgen Using aptitude
If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Ubuntu. Update apt database with aptitude
using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install cbindgen
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install cbindgen
How To Uninstall cbindgen on Ubuntu 22.04
To uninstall only the cbindgen
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove cbindgen
Uninstall cbindgen And Its Dependencies
To uninstall cbindgen
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 22.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove cbindgen
Remove cbindgen Configurations and Data
To remove cbindgen
configuration and data from Ubuntu 22.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge cbindgen
Remove cbindgen configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove cbindgen
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge cbindgen
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install cbindgen
package on Ubuntu 22.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.