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Calling C from Rust can be quite simple. You just declare the external function and call it. For example, straight out of the Rust book https://doc.rust-lang.org/book/ch19-01-unsafe-rust.html#usin... :

  extern "C" {
      fn abs(input: i32) -> i32;
  }

  fn main() {
      unsafe {
          println!("Absolute value of -3 according to C: {}", abs(-3));
      }
  }

Now, if you have a complex library and don't want to write all of the declarations by hand, you can use a tool like bindgen to automatically generate those extern declarations from a C header file: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust-bindgen

There's an argument to be made that something like bindgen could be included in Rust, not requiring a third party dependency and setting up build.rs to invoke it, but that's not really the issue at hand in this article.

The issue is not the low-level bindings, but higher level wrappers that are more idiomatic in Rust. There's no way you're going to be able to have a general tool that can automatically do that from arbitrary C code.