ocaml-interop

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API IS CONSIDERED UNSTABLE AT THE MOMENT AND IS LIKELY TO CHANGE IN THE FUTURE

IMPORTANT: Starting with version 0.11.0 only OCaml 5.x is supported

ocaml-interop is an OCaml<->Rust FFI with an emphasis on safety inspired by caml-oxide, ocaml-rs and CAMLroot.

Read the API reference and documentation here.

Report issues on Github.

A quick taste

Convert between plain OCaml and Rust values

let rust_string = ocaml_string.to_rust();
// `cr` = OCaml runtime handle
let new_ocaml_string = rust_string.to_ocaml(cr);

Convert between Rust and OCaml structs/records

(* OCaml *)
type my_record = {
  string_field: string;
  tuple_field: (string * int);
}

// Rust
struct MyStruct {
    string_field: String,
    tuple_field: (String, i64),
}

impl_conv_ocaml_record! {
    MyStruct {
        string_field: String,
        tuple_field: (String, i64),
    }
}

// ...

let rust_struct = ocaml_record.to_rust();
let new_ocaml_record = rust_struct.to_ocaml(cr);

Convert between OCaml and Rust variants/enums

(* OCaml *)
type my_variant =
  | EmptyTag
  | TagWithInt of int

// Rust
enum MyEnum {
    EmptyTag,
    TagWithInt(i64),
}

impl_conv_ocaml_variant! {
    MyEnum {
        EmptyTag,
        TagWithInt(OCamlInt),
    }
}

// ...

let rust_enum = ocaml_variant.to_rust();
let new_ocaml_variant = rust_enum.to_ocaml(cr);

Call OCaml functions from Rust

(* OCaml *)
Callback.register "ocaml_print_endline" print_endline

// Rust
ocaml! {
    fn ocaml_print_endline(s: String);
}

// ...

let ocaml_string = "hello OCaml!".to_boxroot(cr);
ocaml_print_endline(cr, &ocaml_string);

Call Rust functions from OCaml

#[ocaml_interop::export]
pub fn twice_boxed_int(cr: &mut OCamlRuntime, num: OCaml<OCamlInt64>) -> OCaml<OCamlInt64> {
    let num = num.to_rust();
    let result = num * 2;
    result.to_ocaml(cr)
}

(* OCaml *)
external rust_twice_boxed_int: int64 -> int64 = "twice_boxed_int"

(* ... *)

let result = rust_twice_boxed_int 123L in
(* ... *)

References and links

• OCaml Manual: Chapter 20 Interfacing C with OCaml.
• Safely Mixing OCaml and Rust paper by Stephen Dolan.
• Safely Mixing OCaml and Rust talk by Stephen Dolan.
• CAMLroot: revisiting the OCaml FFI.
• caml-oxide, the code from that paper.
• ocaml-rs, another OCaml<->Rust FFI library.
• ocaml-boxroot