Awesome

Nifty

Helper script for setting up the boilerplate required when writing a NIF. I'm using it by installing as an archive, but I guess you could install it as a dep.

Install

git clone git@github.com:rossjones/nifty.git
cd nifty
mix do archive.build, archive.install

Commands

# Creates a skeleton Makefile, c source and Elxiir module.
mix nifty.gen --library hello --module MyApp.Nif

The compile and clean tasks should happen when your normal mix compile and mix clean calls happen.

Extra info

How to set up compilation for make was found at http://spin.atomicobject.com/2015/03/16/elixir-native-interoperability-ports-vs-nifs/#comment-531191 which was very helpful in getting started. The mix tasks are derived from https://github.com/asbaker/elixir-interop-examples/tree/master/serial_nif