I can call a Go function without parameters from C, per below. This compiles via go build
and prints
Hello from Golang main function! CFunction says: Hello World from CFunction! Hello from GoFunction!
main.go
package main
//extern int CFunction();
import "C"
import "fmt"
func main() {
fmt.Println("Hello from Golang main function!")
//Calling a CFunction in order to have C call the GoFunction
C.CFunction();
}
//export GoFunction
func GoFunction() {
fmt.Println("Hello from GoFunction!")
}
file1.c
#include <stdio.h>
#include "_cgo_export.h"
int CFunction() {
char message[] = "Hello World from CFunction!";
printf("CFunction says: %s
", message);
GoFunction();
return 0;
}
Now, I want to pass a string/char array from C to GoFunction.
According to "C references to Go" in the cgo documentation this is possible, so I add a string parameter to GoFunction and pass the char array message
to GoFunction:
main.go
package main
//extern int CFunction();
import "C"
import "fmt"
func main() {
fmt.Println("Hello from Golang main function!")
//Calling a CFunction in order to have C call the GoFunction
C.CFunction();
}
//export GoFunction
func GoFunction(str string) {
fmt.Println("Hello from GoFunction!")
}
file1.c
#include <stdio.h>
#include "_cgo_export.h"
int CFunction() {
char message[] = "Hello World from CFunction!";
printf("CFunction says: %s
", message);
GoFunction(message);
return 0;
}
Upon go build
I receive this error:
./file1.c:7:14: error: passing 'char [28]' to parameter of incompatible type 'GoString' ./main.go:50:33: note: passing argument to parameter 'p0' here
Other references: https://blog.golang.org/c-go-cgo
(not enough reputation to post 3 links) According to the "strings and things" section of the above blog post: "Conversion between Go and C strings is done with the C.CString, C.GoString, and C.GoStringN functions." but these are for use in Go, and not helpful if I want to pass string data into Go.
A string in C is a *C.char
, not a Go string
. Have your exported function accept the correct C type, and convert it as necessary in Go:
//export GoFunction
func GoFunction(str *C.char) {
fmt.Println("Hello from GoFunction!")
fmt.Println(C.GoString(str))
}
If you want to pass a C string to a function that accepts only Go strings, you can use GoString
type on the C side:
char message[] = "Hello World from CFunction!";
printf("CFunction says: %s
", message);
GoString go_str = {p: message, n: sizeof(message)}; // N.B. sizeof(message) will
// only work for arrays, not
// pointers.
GoFunction(go_str);
return 0;