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veeenu / hudhook

A videogame overlay framework written in Rust, supporting DirectX and OpenGL
MIT License
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Function hooking #118

Closed vars1ty closed 1 year ago

vars1ty commented 1 year ago

Have you considered using https://crates.io/crates/retour instead of MinHook? It's essentially a maintained version of "detours". Should also be easier to use than MH.

veeenu commented 1 year ago

Hi!

Yeah, I've seen it. I decided against it because we don't need anything more than what minhook already offers, plus minhook is very minimal and stable, and its API is clean and makes FFI not really a problem at all.

On the other hand, hudhook's dependency tree has a history of small packages ending up abandoned in a broken state, someone forks them and the fork becomes abandoned as well shortly after. I actually empathize big time: maintaining stuff is hard, and this very repo and the paltry progress I've been able to do on it recently is a testament to that. 😅

detours is one of the crates that ended up not being maintained, and, while retour looks promising, switching over entails a maintenance burden that doesn't justify the value added to our use case.

vars1ty commented 1 year ago

Ah, makes sense. Good to know!