Djinni Generator

➡️ Documentation: djinni.xlcpp.dev

Djinni is a tool for generating cross-language type declarations and interface bindings. It's designed to connect C++ with either Java or Objective-C.

Djinni generator parses an interface definition file and generates:

• C++ implementations of types (enums, records)
• Java implementations of types
• Objective-C implementations of types
• Python implementation of types
• C++/CLI implementation of types
• C++ code to convert between C++ and Java over JNI
• C++ code to serialize/deserialize types to/from JSON
• Objective-C++ code to convert between C++ and Objective-C
• Python and C code to convert between C++ and Python over CFFI
• C++/CLI code to convert between C++ and C#

Installation

Djinni requires Java to be able to execute!

Linux, macOS

Manually

Install with asdf

asdf plugin add djinni
asdf install djinni latest

MacOS homebrew

Add the tap:

brew tap cross-language-cpp/brew https://github.com/cross-language-cpp/brew.git

Install the djinni generator:

brew install djinni

Windows

Conan

The generator is available at conan-center for Windows, Linux & macOS.

Add the generator/version as a build requirement in conanfile.txt:

[build_requires]
djinni-generator/1.x.x

Please adopt the version number as wanted, e.g. djinni-generator/1.3.2

Credits

Thanks goes to these contributors!

The code in this repository is in large portions copied from dropbox/djinni which was created by

• Kannan Goundan
• Tony Grue
• Derek He
• Steven Kabbes
• Jacob Potter
• Iulia Tamas
• Andrew Twyman