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This page lists implementations and language bindings for the D-Bus protocol, their status and, if appropriate, links to download them. 

## Cross-language (with bindings to multiple languages)

### GDBus

GDBus is part of GNOME's GLib library, since version 2.26+. Language bindings are available via GObject-Introspection. It is an implementation of the D-Bus protocol (not a binding).

* [[High-level API|http://library.gnome.org/devel/gio/stable/gdbus-convenience.html]]
* [[Low-level API|http://library.gnome.org/devel/gio/stable/gdbus-lowlevel.html]]
* [Git repository and issue tracking](https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/glib)

### QtDBus

QtDBus is part of Qt, and is a higher-level binding for libdbus. Various language bindings for QtDBus are available.

* [[API documentation|http://doc.qt.io/qt-5/qtdbus-index.html]]
* [[Git repo|http://code.qt.io/cgit/qt/qtbase.git/tree/src/dbus]]

### Eldbus

Eldbus is part of Enlightenment's EFL. It is a binding for libdbus.

* [[API documentation|https://docs.enlightenment.org/efl/current/eldbus_main.html]]
* [[Git repo|https://git.enlightenment.org/core/efl.git/tree/src/lib/eldbus]]

### libdbus (part of dbus)

> If you use this low-level API directly, you're signing up for some pain. —official API documentation

libdbus is part of dbus, and is the reference implementation of the D-Bus protocol. This does not make it the *best* implementation of D-Bus, and for most purposes it isn't the best available. Its maintainers recommend using GDBus, sd-bus or QtDBus instead.

* [[API documentation|https://dbus.freedesktop.org/doc/api/html/]]
* [Git repository and issue tracking](https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/dbus/dbus)

### sd-bus

sd-bus is part of libsystemd, and is an implementation of the D-Bus protocol (not a binding).

* [[API documentation|https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/sd-bus.html]]
* [[Git repository and issue tracking|https://github.com/systemd/systemd/]]

## C++

If you implement a new C++ library for D-Bus, please call it something more distinctive than /dbus-c(p|x|plus|+)\1/, otherwise everyone will mix it up with the existing libraries.

### dbus-cxx

dbus-cxx is a sigc++ binding for libdbus.

* [[Website|http://dbus-cxx.sourceforge.net/]]

### dbus-cpp

dbus-cpp is a header-only C++11 binding for libdbus.

* [[Website|https://launchpad.net/dbus-cpp]]

### dbus-c++

Also known as dbus-cplusplus, this is a C++ binding for libdbus. It appears to be inactive (latest release 2011) and is not recommended. Various forks exist; please list any actively-maintained forks here if you know of them.

* [[Website|http://dbus-cplusplus.sourceforge.net/]]

### sdbus-c++

A C++17 binding for systemd's sd-bus.

* [[Howto|https://github.com/Kistler-Group/sdbus-cpp/blob/master/doc/using-sdbus-c%2B%2B.md]]
* [[Git repository|https://github.com/Kistler-Group/sdbus-cpp]]

## Python

### pydbus

[[pydbus|https://pypi.python.org/pypi/pydbus]] is a modern, pythonic D-Bus library built on top of PyGI and GDBus.

* Github: [[https://github.com/LEW21/pydbus]]

### GDBus

GDBus, the D-Bus implementation in GLib, can be used from Python 2 or 3 via [[PyGI|https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/PyGObject]].

### QtDBus

QtDBus, the D-Bus implementation in Qt, can be used from Python 2 or 3 via recent versions of [[PyQt|PyQt]].

### txdbus

[[txdbus|http://pypi.python.org/pypi/txdbus]] is a native Python implementation of the D-Bus protocol for the Twisted networking framework. 

* Github: [[https://github.com/cocagne/txdbus]]

### Jeepney

[[Jeepney|https://jeepney.readthedocs.io/en/latest/]] is a pure Python D-Bus module.
It consists of an IO-free core implementing the protocol, and integrations
for both blocking I/O and for different asynchronous frameworks.

## Ruby

### ruby-dbus

[[ruby-dbus|https://rubygems.org/gems/ruby-dbus]] is the most popular Ruby D-Bus library. It is an implementation of the D-Bus protocol (not a binding).

* Github: [[https://github.com/mvidner/ruby-dbus]]

## Go

### godbus/dbus

* Github: [[https://github.com/godbus/dbus]]
* [[API documentation|https://godoc.org/github.com/godbus/dbus]]

## Rust

### zbus

Rust implementation, based on Serde.

* Gitlab: [[https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/zeenix/zbus]]

### dbus-rs

libdbus-based binding.

* Github: [[https://github.com/diwic/dbus-rs]]

## Erlang

### erlang-dbus

* Github: [[https://github.com/lizenn/erlang-dbus]]

## Elixir

### dbux

* Github: [[https://github.com/mspanc/dbux]]

## OCaml

### obus

* Github: [[https://github.com/diml/obus]]

## .NET

### dbus-sharp

dbus-sharp is an implementation of the D-Bus protocol (not a binding).

* Github: [[https://github.com/mono/dbus-sharp]]

## Ada

### D_Bus/Ada

* Website: [[https://www.codelabs.ch/dbus-ada/]]
* [[Git repository|http://git.codelabs.ch/?p=dbus-ada.git]] 
* Packages are available in Debian (>= Wheezy) and Ubuntu (>= Quantal Quetzal) 

## Haskell

### dbus

[[dbus|https://hackage.haskell.org/package/dbus]]

* Github: [[https://github.com/jmillikin/haskell-dbus]]

### d-bus

[[d-bus|https://hackage.haskell.org/package/d-bus]]

* Github: [[https://github.com/Philonous/d-bus]]

### udbus

[[udbus|https://hackage.haskell.org/package/udbus]]

* Github: [[https://github.com/vincenthz/hs-udbus]]

## Perl

### Net::DBus

* CPAN: [[http://search.cpan.org/~danberr/Net-DBus-1.1.0/lib/Net/DBus.pm]]

## Objective-C

### DBusKit

* Github: [[https://github.com/gnustep/dbuskit]]

## Tcl

### dbus-tcl

* Sourceforge: [[https://sourceforge.net/projects/dbus-tcl/]]
* [[API documentation|http://dbus-tcl.sourceforge.net/dbus-tcl.html]] 

## Pascal

### FreePascal dbus package

FreePascal has dbus package included.

* Documentation: [[http://wiki.freepascal.org/FPC_and_DBus]]

## Gambas

### gb.dbus

Gambas has gb.dbus package included.

* Documentation: [[http://gambaswiki.org/wiki/doc/dbus]]

## Java

### dbus-java

Since version 2.0 it has been a complete native implementation of the protocol and not a wrapper around the reference implementation. 1.x versions are feature-complete bindings around the reference implementation.

Java D-Bus is hosted in freedesktop.org's [[git repository|http://cgit.freedesktop.org/dbus/dbus-java/]].

**The current release is [[dbus-java-2.7.tar.gz|http://dbus.freedesktop.org/releases/dbus-java/dbus-java-2.7.tar.gz]]. (2009-12-06)** 

The last release binding the reference implementation is [[libdbus-java-1.13.tar.gz|http://dbus.freedesktop.org/releases/dbus-java/libdbus-java-1.13.tar.gz]]. (2006-12-26)

Documentation and API reference for the Java implementation of D-Bus is [[here|http://dbus.freedesktop.org/doc/dbus-java/]].

The Maintainer is Matthew Johnson < [[dbus@matthew.ath.cx|mailto:dbus@matthew.ath.cx]] > 

## Obsolete libraries

### DBus-GLib (obsolete, unmaintained)

dbus-glib is an old GLib binding for libdbus. **New GLib applications should use GDBus. See above.**

**DBus-GLib pretends to be thread-safe but is not. The object model is rubbish and is implemented much better in GDBus (above). The code is not maintained. Do not use it.**

* [[API documentation|http://dbus.freedesktop.org/doc/dbus-glib/index.html]]
* [Git repository and issue tracking](https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/dbus/dbus-glib)
* [[Releases|http://dbus.freedesktop.org/releases/dbus-glib/]]
* [[Training material for Glib wrappers from maemo|http://maemo.org/maemo_training_material/maemo4.x/html/maemo_Platform_Development_Chinook/Chapter_03_Using_the_GLib_wrappers_for_DBus.html]] 

### dbus-python (based on DBus-GLib)

**New applications should use pydbus, txdbus or GDBus/QtDBus bindings. See above.**

dbus-python is a binding for libdbus, the reference implementation of D-Bus. For compatibility reasons, its API involves a lot of type-guessing (despite "explicit is better than implicit" and "resist the temptation to guess"). 

* [[Recent release history|http://dbus.freedesktop.org/doc/dbus-python/NEWS.html]]
* [[API documentation|http://dbus.freedesktop.org/doc/dbus-python/]]
* [Git repository and issue tracking](https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/dbus/dbus-python)
* [[Releases|http://dbus.freedesktop.org/releases/dbus-python/]]