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Closes the quest Share a binding across targets, which this PR deletes, and adds Export moq for every target it ships as its follow-up.

Summary

One binding now serves several targets, such as one Kotlin file for the Android ABIs and the desktops. This follows the quest's decision (b).

  • Several --targets: rust2-ffi --target a --target b ... checks each target in turn. Each target but the last stages its API as JSON. The last target's session merges them (ffi/src/merge.rs), and every IR item carries a bitmask of the targets that have it.
  • Items only some targets have: these are exported everywhere. The glue crate's build script sets cfg(rust2_ffi_target = "<triple>"). Each limited item is gated on that cfg, and on other targets it gets a stub that fails. Each binding reads <prefix>_target() once at load and checks it before a call, raising its language's own error:
    • Kotlin: UnsupportedOperationException
    • Python: NotImplementedError
    • Swift: a trap
    • Go: a panic
    • Dart: UnsupportedError
    • C and C++: abort with the message
  • Variants only some targets have: a value holding such a variant is refused the same way when it crosses.
  • Items that differ between targets: a function whose signature differs, a record whose fields differ, or a constant whose value differs is refused at its span. The error names both targets and has a note at the other target's span.
  • Staging on other hosts (--api / --with): --api <file> stages one target's API so an export on another host can add it with --with <file>. moq's aws-lc-sys and ring need each target's C toolchain even for a check, which is why this exists. Span paths are stored relative to the workspace root or cargo's home, so a checkout at another path keeps its spans. The target test proves this with a moved checkout.
  • Clashes after refusals: an export with refusals still goes on to report C-name clashes (the reject fixture needs this now that the export path is split).

Proof

  • The api fixture is now exported for the host and wasm32 into one binding. It gains Platform (a tagged enum with a wasm-only variant), Family (a plain enum with one), wasm_only(), and a wasm-only object. Each language's test checks that the host's items work and that wasm32's raise the language's error with its message: C, C++, Swift, and Go as broken cases, and Kotlin, Python, and Dart inline.
  • The target test exports a package three ways: for the host, for wasm32, and for both into one binding. It checks:
    • the merged glue under -D warnings for each target
    • that a build for a target that wasn't exported is refused
    • that a differing const and fn are refused, naming both targets
    • the --api/--with round trip, which writes the same header
    • that a census or --api with several targets is refused
  • just ci passes.
  • just ffi moq passes in all seven languages with main merged in locally, now that moq-dev/rust2#693 has landed. The fixture suite passes there too. The branch merges with main without conflict, so it carries no merge commit.
  • moq's own census on each target it ships needs Android's NDK, a macOS runner, and a Windows runner, so it moves to the follow-up quest.

This composes with moq-dev/rust2#693: each target's check still validates its own exclude (configured_out) in its own session, so an exclude of a field a cfg strips on one target is accepted there. A merge also requires every target to have the same package, features, and exclude.

Public API impact

Breaking:

  • The generated crate's build.rs now declares rust2_ffi_target in check-cfg and sets it. Its refusal message names every target exported.
  • glue::Crate loses its target field (internal).

Additive:

  • CLI: --target may repeat; new --api <file> and --with <file> flags.
  • C header: uint32_t <prefix>_target(void), documented with the list of targets. A limited function's doc says "Only on X".
  • Bindings: each gains a private target check:
    • Kotlin: Native.check and Native.__target
    • Swift: Native.target / Native.on
    • Go: rt.On_
    • Dart: _target / _on
    • Python: rt::missing
  • Kotlin: a plain enum with a limited entry has an internal open val value.
  • Dart: such an enum takes two more private constructor fields.

Choices made unattended

  • Constants: a constant only some targets have keeps its value in the binding on every target, since reading it calls nothing. Gating it would make Kotlin's const val and Dart's const getters instead.
  • Records: a record whose fields differ between targets is refused as a definition that differs, rather than letting one target's binding lack a field. Records cross by value, so there is no call to fail. moq's tokio::listen::Config holds a pub(crate) field, so it exports as an object, and its unix-only accessors are served.
  • Swift traps: Swift traps on a missing item, as its other run-time checks do today.
  • C++ aborts: C++ aborts, as C does. checks-raise owns raising from C++ with exceptions.
  • Error locations: the error sits at the first target's span in sorted order, or at the local span when a staged file is not on this host as it was. The note then says the API was staged elsewhere.

Follow-ups

Decisions

  • Design checkpoint after review round 3: ✅ Continue (rejected: rethink by placing generic instances by the merged crate order; merge as is). The rounds' findings were corners of merge rules, not the design. The round-3 low finding is fixed: order_crates now records each variant's fields with the variant's own targets, so a cycle refusal through a wasm32-only variant names each target once, tested by merge::tests::names_a_variants_own_targets.
  • Design checkpoint after review round 3 (maintainer, 2026-11-11): ✅ keep the approach and move Dart's target check (_on) into the public function ahead of argument lowering (rejected: rethink how target checks are placed across languages; merge as is). A call to an item this target lacks now throws before it gives Rust any implementation or waker, tested in api.dart by api.wasmLog (a new wasm32-only fixture function taking a Log), which fails without the fix. The audit of the other six found none: Swift and Go check first in the public function, Kotlin's callbacks and wakers become Rust values only in the JNI glue behind the check, Python's stub only drops Rust values it took, and C and C++ abort.
  • Follow-up: ✅ keep Export moq for every target it ships (rejected: drop it).

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  • Reviewer: Codex, gpt-6.1-sol, high effort
  • Session: 01a1c577-3575-7461-9278-11c4bb785e2e, round 5
  • Head: 214a90d
  • Base: origin/main at aebc4fc
  • Score: 10/10, The incremental changes correctly integrate the base branch’s new IR fields and generator updates with multi-target exports, with no new findings.
  • Findings: none

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`--target` may repeat: each target's API is checked in turn and merged into one binding,
where an item only some targets have works on those and raises the language's own error
elsewhere, and an item whose definition differs between two targets is refused at its
span, naming both. `--api` stages one target's API for an export on another host to add
with `--with`.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
@kixelated kixelated changed the title Share a binding across targets feat(ffi)!: share one binding across targets Nov 11, 2026
kixelated and others added 3 commits November 10, 2026 19:05
…rder by use

A callback only some targets have gates its Send, Sync, and Drop impls too. The runtime's
`<prefix>_target` is reserved, so an item of that name is a clash at its span. A data
enum's variants merge whatever their Rust discriminants, which only a plain enum's C values
are. The merged crates follow each crate whose types their items name, on any target.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
…rgets

An instance's crate is the last of its arguments' on its own target, so where two targets
order independent crates differently, the merged crates can name each other's types. That
is now a refusal at an item of each, naming both targets, rather than a panic.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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The FFI exporter now accepts multiple targets and can write or merge staged target APIs. The API model records target membership for declarations. Generated Rust glue and Dart, Go, Kotlin, Python, and Swift bindings check whether calls and enum variants are available on the selected target. Fixtures and tests cover host and wasm32 exports, target mismatches, staged API merges, and unavailable items. Documentation describes the multi-target workflow.

Merge Risk: Low · previous review 7c7b6

The new multi-target export works through its normal staging flow. A hand-edited staged API file with an unexpected target count could produce a binding that gates items for the wrong targets. Adding a one-target check when staged files are read closes this; the remaining risk is small.

Pre-merge checks: Passed 4 · Failed 1

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Description check Passed The pull request description directly explains the multi-target FFI export changes, staged API merging, target-specific behavior, tests, and follow-up work described by the changeset.
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Comment thread ffi/src/driver.rs Resolved
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
A call to an item this target lacks gave Rust its implementations and wakers before the
checked native threw, leaking them and serving every later call from a worker thread.

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kixelated and others added 2 commits November 11, 2026 10:21
# Conflicts:
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#	ffi/src/kotlin.rs
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