Go bindings are broken

[williballenthin]

I am unable to get the Go-language bindings working with r2. I don't think this is due to an issue with r2 being in a state of flux, rather I think it has something to do with the binding generation themselves. I fixed as many Go binding bugs as I could (see other PRs), but I'm woefully uneducated in SWIG.

Details:

$ cd radare2-bindings/go
$ # remove Makefile line 5 (`include ../rules.mk`), as described in #26, or we don't get anywhere
$ make r_bin.so
  ...   # output looks fine
$ make rbintest
. ./goenv.sh ; \
    ${GOC} -I . test-r_bin.go ; \
    ${GOL} -L . test-r_bin.${GO_N} ; \
    LD_LIBRARY_PATH=. ./${GO_N}.out /bin/ls
./6.out: symbol lookup error: ./6.out: undefined symbol: _wrap_RListIter_get_next
make: *** [rbintest] Error 127

Other supporting details:

$ nm 6.out | grep _wrap_RListIter_get_next                                
  00000000004506f0 T r_bin._swig_wrap_RListIter_get_next
  00000000005ef2b0 d x_wrap_RListIter_get_next
$ nm r_bin.a | grep _wrap_RListIter_get_next     
  nm: __.GOSYMDEF: File format not recognized
  nm: __.PKGDEF: File format not recognized
  nm: r_bin.6: File format not recognized
  nm: r_bin_gc.6: File format not recognized
$ grep _wrap_RListIter_get_next r_bin_wrap.cxx                            
  void _wrap_RListIter_get_next(void *swig_v) { RListIter *arg1 = (RListIter *) 0 ;     RListIter *result = 0 ; struct swigargs {

I think the fix would be small, but requires insight into r2 and SWIG (which I don't have yet). If you could dedicate a little time to fixing the the issue, I'd really appreciate it. Otherwise, if you could point me towards the appropriate resources to learn to do it myself, that would be a great help.

[radare]

I’m in favor of implementing valabind —golang to generate CGO bindings without depending
on SWIG. That would be like the ctypes or nodejs bindings. Do you want to contribute on this?

On OSX I get the following error:

Undefined symbols for architecture x86_64:
  "__cgo_allocate", referenced from:
      _swig_goallocate(unsigned long) in r_bin_wrap-cac679.o
  "__cgo_panic", referenced from:
      _swig_gopanic(char const*) in r_bin_wrap-cac679.o
  "_crosscall2", referenced from:
      _swig_gopanic(char const*) in r_bin_wrap-cac679.o
      _swig_goallocate(unsigned long) in r_bin_wrap-cac679.o
ld: symbol(s) not found for architecture x86_64
clang: error: linker command failed with exit code 1 (use -v to see invocation)

which seems to be related to the version of Go installed.

On 27 May 2014, at 03:20, Willi Ballenthin notifications@github.com wrote:

I am unable to get the Go-language bindings working with r2. I don't think this is due to an issue with r2 being in a state of flux, rather I think it has something to do with the binding generation themselves. I fixed as many Go binding bugs as I could (see other PRs), but I'm woefully uneducated in SWIG.

Details:

$ cd radare2-bindings/go
$ # remove Makefile line 5 (include ../rules.mk), as described in #26, or we don't get anywhere
$ make r_bin.so
... # output looks fine
$ make rbintest
. ./goenv.sh ;
${GOC} -I . test-r_bin.go ;
${GOL} -L . test-r_bin.${GO_N} ;
LD_LIBRARY_PATH=. ./${GO_N}.out /bin/ls
./6.out: symbol lookup error: ./6.out: undefined symbol: _wrap_RListIter_get_next
make: *** [rbintest] Error 127
Other supporting details:

$ nm 6.out | grep _wrap_RListIter_get_next
00000000004506f0 T r_bin._swig_wrap_RListIter_get_next
00000000005ef2b0 d x_wrap_RListIter_get_next
$ nm r_bin.a | grep _wrap_RListIter_get_next
nm: __.GOSYMDEF: File format not recognized
nm: __.PKGDEF: File format not recognized
nm: r_bin.6: File format not recognized
nm: r_bin_gc.6: File format not recognized
$ grep _wrap_RListIter_get_next r_bin_wrap.cxx
void _wrap_RListIter_get_next(void *swig_v) { RListIter *arg1 = (RListIter *) 0 ; RListIter *result = 0 ; struct swigargs {
I think the fix would be small, but requires insight into r2 and SWIG (which I don't have yet). If you could dedicate a little time to fixing the the issue, I'd really appreciate it. Otherwise, if you could point me towards the appropriate resources to learn to do it myself, that would be a great help.

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[williballenthin]

Sure, I'd be happy to look into implementing a Go writer for valabind. I'll use the existing writers as examples.

Thanks for the quick response!

[radare]

Awesome!

Yesterday i was playing a little with gco to make the bindings for sdb and learn a litle of go.

It seems that swig is again doing an awful job and it would be better to nake our own bindings.

I would add --golang to valabind, look at the ctypes or nodejs implementation. It should be quite straight forward.

Thanks!

On 27 May 2014, at 03:40, Willi Ballenthin notifications@github.com wrote:

Sure, I'd be happy to look into implementing a Go writer for valabind. I'll use the existing writers as examples.

Thanks for the quick response!

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[XVilka]

@williballenthin shall we close this bug now?

[williballenthin]

Sorry, but unfortunately my bindings are not yet complete. In fact, they probably don't cover much of the existing r2 API, yet. Finishing them is high on my list of projects, but realistically, won't happen this week.

[XVilka]

@williballenthin I'm postponing this to 1.0.0 release, but you always can improve Go bindings earlier :)

[radare]

The r2pipe go bindings are very mature and stable right now. And i think it fits better with the philosophy of extending and using r2 from bindings is getting in shape. But yeah it would be great to make valabind work fine for go

On 18 Apr 2015, at 23:54, Anton Kochkov notifications@github.com wrote:

@williballenthin I'm postponing this to 1.0.0 release, but you always can improve Go bindings earlier :)

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[radare]

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[XVilka]

By the way, I wrote a simple Python script to generate the bindings for some languages directly from the C headers, so no need for middle-men like Valabind or SWIG, it supports Go through c-for-go, see https://github.com/radareorg/radare2-bindings#experimental-radare2-bindgen