Lib.rs

k4a-sys

A bingden wrapper for the Azure Kinect Sensor SDK, which works on both Linux and Windows.

Vendors the compiled SDK libs from version 1.3.

At the moment I have compiled the sdk on both Linux and Windows and added the includes and dynamic libraries by hand to the vendor folder. It might be possible to compile libk4a from source in the future, but it looks time consuming.

Examples

There are two examples that match the SDK's. You can run them with eg:

cargo run --example enumerate
cargo run --example streaming

Future plans

This is temporarily missing the depthengine library, my plan is to statically compile this into the lib soon.

Raise an issue if you'd like dynamic linking, but since k4a is such a niche library, I think it's very convenient to have it statically compiled for now.

I'm also planning on writing a safe Rust wrapper library, k4a-rs to allow Rust-idiomatic (not raw pointers!) access to the libraries. It will probably live in this repo and we'll move k4a-sys to a sub-directory here, the same way bzip2-rs and bzip2-sys work.

I think in the near future we'll remove bindgen from the list of dependencies and only run it every library update, that is, by hand/script instead of in the build.rs. This is because bindgen has ~60 dependencies, and should always generate the same output file anyways. (It's possible to make the output cross platform).