cgo convert list

cgo.md

See also, http://libraryofalexandria.io/cgo/

Using Go cgo

cgo has a lot of trap.
but Not "C" pkg also directory in $GOROOT/src. IDE's(vim) Goto command not works.

So, Here collect materials.

cgo compiling file extension

C

.c, .s, .S

C++

.cc, .cpp, .cxx

Header

Any .h, .hh, .hpp, .hxx files will not be compiled separately.
but, if these header files are changed, the C and C++ files will be recompiled.

cgo environment variable

Building Go

CC, CXX, CC_FOR_TARGET, CXX_FOR_TARGET

Compiling .go

CGO_CFLAGS, CGO_CPPFLAGS, CGO_CXXFLAGS, CGO_LDFLAGS

cgo convert C-Go string type

string

// Go string to C string; result must be freed with C.free
func C.CString(string) *C.char

// C string to Go string
func C.GoString(*C.char) string

// C string, length to Go string
func C.GoStringN(*C.char, C.int) string

// C pointer, length to Go []byte
func C.GoBytes(unsafe.Pointer, C.int) []byte

C Types in Go

char

type C.char
type C.schar (signed char)
type C.uchar (unsigned char)

short

type C.short
type C.ushort (unsigned short)

int

type C.int
type C.uint (unsigned int)

long

type C.long
type C.ulong (unsigned long)

longlong

type C.longlong (long long)
type C.ulonglong (unsigned long long)

float

type C.float  

double

type C.double

Directly access struct type

As in C.struct_stat

struct

type C.struct_***

union

type C.union_***

enum

type C.enum_***

void*

See also https://golang.org/pkg/unsafe/

func unsafe.Pointer() *ArbitraryType

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Hi,
Thanks for this. I faced with a problem lately. C.char in some platform is signed by default whereas in some others it is unsigned. so I faced with this error when trying to use C.GoString function:
cannot use _Cfunc_myfunc() (type *_Ctype_uchar) as type _Ctype_char in argument to _Cfunc_GoString
It turned out that myfunc() which return char translated to uchar instead of char. do you know how to force the cgo to deal with it?

@zchee it possible to convert *net.Conn to *_Ctype_int: go net.Conn to c SOCKET?

@lochv I don't know yet. This gist created about 3 years ago(?)
Might be helpful you dive to runtime/cgo

Hi,
Thanks for this. I faced with a problem lately. C.char in some platform is signed by default whereas in some others it is unsigned. so I faced with this error when trying to use C.GoString function:
cannot use _Cfunc_myfunc() (type *_Ctype_uchar) as type __Ctype_char in argument to Cfunc_GoString It turned out that myfunc() which return char translated to uchar instead of char. do you know how to force the cgo to deal with it?

damn, I met the same problem....

Hi,
Thanks for this. I faced with a problem lately. C.char in some platform is signed by default whereas in some others it is unsigned. so I faced with this error when trying to use C.GoString function:
cannot use _Cfunc_myfunc() (type *_Ctype_uchar) as type __Ctype_char in argument to Cfunc_GoString It turned out that myfunc() which return char translated to uchar instead of char. do you know how to force the cgo to deal with it?

damn, I met the same problem....

Not sure if this works for everyone but I've been using C.GoBytes to return the byte array and then convert that in go.

foo := C.GoBytes(unsafe.Pointer(buffer), C.int(size))
bar := string(foo)

Thank you for listing

bool type

C.bool

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