I’m trying to implement callback functions for a C library, to get and set the clipboard text. My functions look like this: clipboard_get(::Ptr{Cvoid})::Cstring = string(clipboard()) const CLIPBOARD_FN_GET = @cfunction(clipboard_get, Cstring, (Ptr{CVoid{, )) clipboard_set(::Ptr{Cvoid}, value::Cstr…

[image] heyx3: clipboard_get(::Ptr{Cvoid})::Cstring = string(clipboard()) How do you want to manage the memory for this? If Julia allocates a String object and returns a pointer to the data to C (which is possible via unsafe_convert), then the C code could crash if Julia garbage-collects the…

How to create a Cstring from a String?

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How to create a Cstring from a String?

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