Rust-CLIPS

Rust bindings for the CLIPS expert system.

This repository is a Cargo workspace containing two crates:

• clips-sys: Low-level, unsafe FFI bindings generated via bindgen to the CLIPS C API.
• clips: A safe, idiomatic Rust wrapper around clips-sys, providing higher-level abstractions for working with CLIPS environments, rules, facts, and more.

Features

• Automatic binding generation during build.
• Support for CLIPS core functionality (e.g., creating environments, asserting facts, running rules).
• Thread-safety considerations (CLIPS is not thread-safe by default; use with caution in multi-threaded contexts).
• Tested against CLIPS version 6.4 (update as needed).

Requirements

To use CLIPS, you need to populate the clips_source directory with the CLIPS source code. You can do this by running the following commands:

wget -O clips_642.zip https://sourceforge.net/projects/clipsrules/files/CLIPS/6.4.2/clips_core_source_642.zip/download
unzip clips_642.zip -d clips_temp
mkdir clips_source
mv clips_temp/clips_core_source_642/core/* clips_source/
rm -rf clips_temp clips_642.zip

Installation

Add to your Cargo.toml (assuming published to crates.io; otherwise use git/path dependencies):

[dependencies]
clips = "0.1.0"  # Or { path = "../rust-clips/clips" } for local dev