[AOT] C-APIs for Taichi runtime distribution #5150
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Because platforms like Android and iOS have their own workflows of library integration, and some users do not have a C++17 toolchain to compile Taichi properly, Taichi need an interface to be correctly linked and/or dynamically loaded by any toolchain, any programming language on any platform. So this PR proposes a set of C-APIs to ease distributed library integration.
This PR introduces the following changes:
c_api/taichi.json
which is a machine-readable specification of the first release of Taichi Runtime public APIs;misc/generate-c-api.py
is a Python script to generate C/C++ headers based on the specification;c_api/include/taichi/*.h
are the generated headers.