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

Cross-language (with bindings to multiple languages)

GDBus (part of GLib 2.26+)

• High-level API
• Low-level API

QtDBus (part of Qt)

• API documentation
• Git repo

Eldbus (part of Enlightenment's EFL)

• API documentation
• Git repo

Python

pydbus

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.

QtDBus

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

txdbus

txdbus is a native Python implementation of the D-Bus protocol for the Twisted networking framework.

• Github: https://github.com/cocagne/txdbus

Ruby

ruby-dbus

ruby-dbus is the most popular Ruby D-Bus library.

• Github: https://github.com/mvidner/ruby-dbus

Go

godbus/dbus

• Github: https://github.com/godbus/dbus
• API documentation

Rust

dbus-rs

• 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

• Github: https://github.com/mono/dbus-sharp

Ada

D_Bus/Ada

• Website: https://www.codelabs.ch/dbus-ada/
• Git repository
• Packages are available in Debian (>= Wheezy) and Ubuntu (>= Quantal Quetzal)

Haskell

dbus

dbus

• Github: https://github.com/jmillikin/haskell-dbus

d-bus

d-bus

• Github: https://github.com/Philonous/d-bus

udbus

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

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.

The current release is dbus-java-2.7.tar.gz. (2009-12-06)

The last release binding the reference implementation is libdbus-java-1.13.tar.gz. (2006-12-26)

Documentation and API reference for the Java implementation of D-Bus is here.

The Maintainer is Matthew Johnson < dbus@matthew.ath.cx >

Obsolete libraries

DBus-GLib (obsolete, unmaintained)

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
• Git repo
• Releases
• Bugs are tracked in the freedesktop.org bugzilla: search for dbus-glib bugs or file a dbus-glib bug
• Training material for Glib wrappers from maemo

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
• API documentation
• Git repo
• Releases
• Bugs are tracked in the freedesktop.org bugzilla: search for dbus-python bugs or file a dbus-python bug