<h1 >Bindings for other languages</h1>
<p>
- Libvirt comes with bindings to support other languages than
- pure <strong>C</strong>. First the headers embeds the necessary
- declarations to allow direct access from <strong>C++</strong>
- code, but also we have bindings for higher level kind of languages:
+ Libvirt supports C and C++ directly, and has bindings available
+ for other languages:
</p>
<ul>
<li>
- <strong>Python</strong>: Libvirt comes with direct support for
- the Python language (just make sure you installed the libvirt-python
- package if not compiling from sources). See below for more
- information about using libvirt with python
+ <strong>C#</strong>: Arnaud Champion develops
+ <a href="csharp.html">C# bindings</a>.
</li>
<li>
- <strong>Perl</strong>: Daniel Berrange provides
- <a href="http://search.cpan.org/dist/Sys-Virt/">bindings for Perl</a>.
+ <strong>Java</strong>: Daniel Veillard develops
+ <a href="java.html">Java bindings</a>.
</li>
<li>
- <strong>OCaml</strong>: Richard Jones supplies
- <a href="http://libvirt.org/ocaml/">bindings for OCaml</a>.
+ <strong>OCaml</strong>: Richard Jones develops
+ <a href="http://libvirt.org/ocaml/">OCaml bindings</a>.
</li>
<li>
- <strong>Ruby</strong>: David Lutterkort provides
- <a href="http://libvirt.org/ruby/">bindings for Ruby</a>.
+ <strong>Perl</strong>: Daniel Berrange develops
+ <a href="http://search.cpan.org/dist/Sys-Virt/">Perl bindings</a>.
</li>
<li>
- <strong>Java</strong>: Daniel Veillard maintains
- <a href="java.html">Java bindings</a>.
+ <p>
+ <strong>PHP</strong>: Radek Hladik develops
+ <a href="http://phplibvirt.cybersales.cz/">PHP bindings</a>.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ The php-libvirt bindings also have their source online
+ <a href="http://github.com/Kedarius/php-libvirt">here in Github</a>.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ This allows you to easily see the code, make comments on it,
+ create your own forks, and contribute the changes back.
+ </p>
</li>
<li>
- <strong>C#</strong>: Arnaud Champion maintains
- <a href="csharp.html">C# bindings</a>.
+ <p>
+ <strong>Python</strong>: Libvirt comes with direct support for
+ the Python language.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ If your libvirt is installed as packages, rather than compiled
+ by you from source code, ensure you have the appropriate
+ package installed.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ This is named <b>libvirt-python</b> on RHEL/Fedora,
+ <a href="http://packages.ubuntu.com/search?keywords=python-libvirt"><b>python-libvirt</b></a>
+ on Ubuntu, and may be named differently on others.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ For usage information, see the
+ <a href="python.html">Python API bindings</a> page.
+ </p>
</li>
<li>
- <strong>PHP</strong>: Radek Hladik is developing
- <a href="http://phplibvirt.cybersales.cz/">PHP bindings</a>.
+ <strong>Ruby</strong>: David Lutterkort develops
+ <a href="http://libvirt.org/ruby/">Ruby bindings</a>.
</li>
</ul>