The Rust binding generator for GObject introspection is used to produce mostly-automatically generated code for Rust crates that interface with libraries for which GObject introspection data is available in GIR XML format. The generator is written in Python using tools modules developed in the gobject-introspection project; it uses Mako template engine to generate code from programmable, customizable templates.

Installation requires Python package setuptools of version 12 or later. To install the generator from the source tree, change into its root directory and run setup.py:

python setup.py install

The develop command can also be used to set up the tool for in-tree usage.