Client Libraries

We provide a number of client libraries and bindings for a variety of languages. The core logic is implemented in a small Rust crate called gl-client, on top of which the language bindings are built. Since these make use of native code they have to build a binary extension that can be loaded by the language runtime.

We precompile the binaries for a couple of platforms and architectures to simplify installation for developers. These are automatically downloaded as part of the installation of the library and should your combination be supported you will not need any compiler or sophisticated build process, it should just work out of the box.

Platforms and Architectures

Currently our CI builds prebuilt bindings for Python for the following platform and architecture combinations:

OS	Architecture
MacOS	x86_64 (intel)
MacOS	arm64 (m1/m2)
Windows	x86
Window	x64
Linux	x86_64-gnu
Linux	i686-gnu
Linux	armv7-gnueabi
Linux	aarch64

Should your platform and architecture not be in the list above, don't worry, you can still build them from the source by checking out the repository, and then either call make build-py to build just the bindings you need.

Please let us know if we're missing a combination, so we can try to add it to our build system, and remove the need to manually compile the extension going forward.

There is an automated way of doing this in both languages, based on the source tarball published to NPM and PyPI, however since the build depends on a sibling crate which is not bundled it will most likely fail to build from source tarball (we are working on fixing this).