A Simple Rust Library

Exporting Rust functions and types to C is easy. Here’s a simple Rust library:

interoperability/rust/libanalyze/analyze.rs

//! Rust FFI demo.
#![deny(improper_ctypes_definitions)]

use std::os::raw::c_int;

/// Analyze the numbers.
// SAFETY: There is no other global function of this name.
#[unsafe(no_mangle)]
pub extern "C" fn analyze_numbers(x: c_int, y: c_int) {
    if x < y {
        println!("x ({x}) is smallest!");
    } else {
        println!("y ({y}) is probably larger than x ({x})");
    }
}

interoperability/rust/libanalyze/Android.bp

rust_ffi {
    name: "libanalyze_ffi",
    crate_name: "analyze_ffi",
    srcs: ["analyze.rs"],
    include_dirs: ["."],
}

#[unsafe(no_mangle)] disables Rust’s usual name mangling, so the exported symbol will just be the name of the function. You can also use #[unsafe(export_name = "some_name")] to specify whatever name you want.