The C++ portion of this crate is based on Electron-GqlMAPI. Unlike that project, there is no V8 engine or Node interoperability/threading requirement. I wrote just enough support code and state management for that API projection though, that I decided to use it as the basis for an API projection to Rust.
The next layer in the Electron stack is
eMAPI. The next layer in this stack will probably be a
Tauri app that does the same thing but in a much more lightweight fashion than
Electron.
This project only builds on Windows, and I've only tested it with x64 builds. It requires that you have
CMake installed, the version included with Visual Studio 2019 works fine. It also uses
the vcpkg package manager for the dependencies. At a minimum, you need
to build/install cppgraphqlgen with vcpkg for your target triplet, e.g.:
```cmd
vcpkg install cppgraphqlgen:x64-windows ```
You will need to set a couple of environment variables to tell build.rs where to find it. In
this example, I have vcpkg in a subdirectory called source\repos\microsoft\vcpkg under my user profile,
and I'm targetting x64-windows.
```cmd
set VCPKGROOT=%USERPROFILE%\source\repos\microsoft\vcpkg set VCPKGTARGET_TRIPLET=x64-windows ```
Make sure you have also cloned the gqlmapi sub-module. If you did not clone this repo recursively, you
can still pull down the sub-module with a couple of git commands:
```cmd
git submodule init git submodule update ```
After that, you should be ready to build with cargo build.