Hi Axel, Doing complete C wrappers around the C++ library would be a ton of work - you'd have to simulate the object model on the C side, and that's "not easy".
Doing a "full" wrapper for another programming language is almost certainly best handled using SWIG (assuming it has bindings for the language you are interested in). An alternate approach would be to look at the MinimalLib: the library that's used to generate the Javascript wrappers: it's based on the idea of exposing a small number of useful functions instead of supporting the full API: https://github.com/rdkit/rdkit/tree/master/Code/MinimalLib -greg On Sun, Apr 26, 2020 at 9:47 PM Riccardo Vianello < riccardo.viane...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Axel, > > On Sun, Apr 26, 2020 at 6:21 PM Axel Pahl <axelp...@gmx.de> wrote: > >> is anyone aware of efforts for creating "bridging" C wrappers for the >> RDKit? >> This would make it easier to bind the toolkit to other programming >> languages, in addition to Python and Java. >> > > I'm not aware of any active/existing projects, but I've been also thinking > about this possibility in a couple of occasions. > > Could the existing SWIG interface be perused for this? > > as far as I know, this isn't (or at least wasn't) directly possible. SWIG > includes the core functionality required to generate these wrappers, but C > is not a supported target language. Last time I checked a mostly functional > but not ready to merge GSoC branch existed, that was aimed at providing > this feature, but I am not sure it made any progress. > > Best, > Riccardo > > > _______________________________________________ > Rdkit-discuss mailing list > Rdkit-discuss@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/rdkit-discuss >
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