rust_sodium

Rust bindings to libsodium.

This project is largely based on sodiumoxide. Some main differences are:

• this project builds or downloads libsodium by default, favouring a statically-built, fixed version of the native library
• offers the ability to initialise libsodium with a psuedorandom number generator, allowing for reproducible data to be generated, which can be useful in the context of tests
• implements a test to ensure the FFI bindings match the native library's interface
• runs CI tests on Windows (AppVeyor), OS X and Linux (Travis)

Crate	Documentation	Linux/macOS	Windows	Issues

Note for building on Linux

Certain situations may require building libsodium configured with --disable-pie. To enable this, set an environment variable RUST_SODIUM_DISABLE_PIE while building, e.g.

RUST_SODIUM_DISABLE_PIE=1 cargo build

To use your own copy of libsodium

If you already have a copy of libsodium, you can choose to link this rather than having rust_sodium download and build libsodium for you. You should ensure that it is the same version as is specified in VERSION of our build.rs file.

Set an environment variable RUST_SODIUM_LIB_DIR to the folder where libsodium exists. A static version of libsodium will be preferred unless you also set RUST_SODIUM_SHARED to any value.

Alternatively, you can use pkgconfig if appropriate to locate libsodium by setting RUST_SODIUM_USE_PKG_CONFIG to any value. In this case, RUST_SODIUM_SHARED has no effect, and generally a shared version of libsodium will be used.

Cross-Compiling

Cross-Compiling for ARM

1. Install dependencies and toolchain:

   sudo apt update
   sudo apt install build-essential gcc-arm-linux-gnueabihf libc6-armhf-cross libc6-dev-armhf-cross -y
   rustup target add armv7-unknown-linux-gnueabihf
   

2. Add the following to a .cargo/config file:

   [target.armv7-unknown-linux-gnueabihf]
   linker = "arm-linux-gnueabihf-gcc"
   

3. Build by running:

   cargo build --release --target armv7-unknown-linux-gnueabihf
   

Cross-Compiling for 32-bit Linux

1. Install dependencies and toolchain:

   sudo apt update
   sudo apt install build-essential gcc-multilib -y
   rustup target add i686-unknown-linux-gnu
   

2. Build by running:

   cargo build --release --target i686-unknown-linux-gnu
   

License

This SAFE Network library is dual-licensed under the Modified BSD (LICENSE-BSD https://opensource.org/licenses/BSD-3-Clause) or the MIT license (LICENSE-MIT https://opensource.org/licenses/MIT) at your option.

Contribution

Unless you explicitly state otherwise, any contribution intentionally submitted for inclusion in the work by you, as defined in the Apache-2.0 license, shall be dual licensed as above, without any additional terms or conditions.