v0.71.0

We are happy to announce a new release of bindgen 🎉

• GitHub
• crates.io
• Users Guide
• API Documentation

Changelog

Added

• Add the ParseCallbacks::new_item_found callback to expose the original and final name of structs, unions and enums (#2658).
• Add the field_type_name field to FieldInfo to expose the name of the type of a field (#2863)
• Add support for custom attributes with the --with-attribute-custom flag (#2866)
• Allow setting --rust-target to any Rust version supported by bindgen (#2993)
• Use c-string literals if the --generate-cstr flag is used for Rust targets after 1.77 under the 2021 edition (#2996)
• Add the --rust-edition flag which allows to select which Rust edition to target. (#3002, #3013)
• Use unsafe extern instead of extern in blocks for any Rust target after 1.82. (#3015)

Changed

• The --wrap-static-fns related options no longer require the experimental feature or flag (#2928)
• Use the Display implementation instead of the Debug one for BindgenError in bindgen-cli (#3005)

Removed

• Dropped support for any Clang versions strictly lower than 9.0 (#2932)
• Dropped support for any Rust version strictly lower than 1.33 (#2993)

Fixed

• Represent opaque types in a FFI-safe way (#2880)
• Use the underlying type of any atomic type instead of panicking (#2920)
• Use the right characters for newlines on windows (#2923)
• Inlined namespaces are properly recognized now (#2950)
• Unsafe calls to libloading are now wrapped in unsafe blocks when using dynamic loading (#2961)
• The ParseCallbacks::field_visibility callback is now called for newtypes as well (#2967)
• Gate the use of the addr_of and addr_of_mut macros under the 1.51 rust version (#2988)

Upgrade bindgen

Upgrade to this release by updating your Cargo.toml:

bindgen = "0.71.0"

Install bindgen-cli

Install prebuild binaries using cargo binstall

Just run

cargo binstall bindgen-cli

Install prebuilt binaries via shell script

curl --proto '=https' --tlsv1.2 -LsSf https://github.com/rust-lang/rust-bindgen/releases/download/v0.71.0/bindgen-cli-installer.sh | sh

Download bindgen-cli 0.71.0

File	Platform	Checksum
bindgen-cli-aarch64-apple-darwin.tar.xz	Apple Silicon macOS	checksum
bindgen-cli-x86_64-apple-darwin.tar.xz	Intel macOS	checksum
bindgen-cli-x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu.tar.xz	x64 Linux	checksum

Compile and install binaries from source

Just run

cargo install bindgen-cli

Friends

Thanks to everyone who contributed to this release!

• Brian Ward
• Christiaan Biesterbosch
• Christian Poveda
• David Tolnay
• Emilio Cobos Álvarez
• Enes
• George Bateman
• John Baublitz
• Jonathan Schwender
• Jubilee Young
• Martin Kröning
• Maxence Younsi
• Miguel Ojeda
• Mossa
• myyrakle
• Nik Konyuchenko
• Valentin
• Yuri Astrakhan
• Zhang Jingqiang

Contributing

Want to join us? Check out our CONTRIBUTING.md and take a look
at some of these issues:

• Issues labeled "easy"
• Issues labeled "less easy"
• Still can't find something to work on? Drop a comment here.

Want to help improve our documentation? Check out the issues labeled "docs".

Found a bug with bindgen? File an issue here.