xlab/c-for-go

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1682 stars · 121 forks observed · 2026-08-28

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

c-for-go is an automatic C-Go bindings generator for the Go programming language. It parses C headers using a YAML manifest to generate low-level cgo-based Go packages that wrap existing C/C++ libraries.

Use cases

• generate go bindings for a c library
• wrap c headers in go automatically
• use a c library from go without writing cgo by hand
• create go package from c api headers
• bind vulkan or other c apis to go
• convert c header files to go code

When to choose

• you need to call an existing C library from Go and want to avoid hand-writing thousands of lines of cgo
• you want reproducible, manifest-driven binding generation for large C APIs
• you are comfortable managing memory and writing a high-level Go wrapper on top of low-level bindings

When to avoid

• you need a pure-Go solution with no cgo dependency
• the C library is tiny and a few hand-written cgo bindings would be simpler
• you need bindings for languages other than Go

Facets

cli-tool · maturity maintenance

parser developer-tools developer-tools programming-languages cross-platform go cli cross-platform cgo bindings-generator c-interop yaml-manifest code-generation

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