diff --git a/services/tunnelbroker/rust-notifications/Cargo.lock b/services/tunnelbroker/rust-notifications/Cargo.lock
--- a/services/tunnelbroker/rust-notifications/Cargo.lock
+++ b/services/tunnelbroker/rust-notifications/Cargo.lock
@@ -64,6 +64,60 @@
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 checksum = "baf1de4339761588bc0619e3cbc0120ee582ebb74b53b4efbf79117bd2da40fd"
 
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+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "3538270d33cc669650c4b093848450d380def10c331d38c768e34cac80576e6e"
+dependencies = [
+ "termcolor",
+ "unicode-width",
+]
+
+[[package]]
+name = "cxx"
+version = "1.0.73"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "873c2e83af70859af2aaecd1f5d862f3790b747b1f4f50fb45a931d000ac0422"
+dependencies = [
+ "cc",
+ "cxxbridge-flags",
+ "cxxbridge-macro",
+ "link-cplusplus",
+]
+
+[[package]]
+name = "cxx-build"
+version = "1.0.73"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "b49edea7163bbc7a39e3d829b4b0b66a9d30486973152842b7413f2c7b5632bf"
+dependencies = [
+ "cc",
+ "codespan-reporting",
+ "once_cell",
+ "proc-macro2",
+ "quote",
+ "scratch",
+ "syn",
+]
+
+[[package]]
+name = "cxxbridge-flags"
+version = "1.0.73"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "f46b787c15af80277db5c88c6ac6c502ae545e622f010e06f95e540d34931acf"
+
+[[package]]
+name = "cxxbridge-macro"
+version = "1.0.73"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "2ba3f3a7efa46626878fb5d324fabca4d19d2956b6ae97ce43044ef4515f5abc"
+dependencies = [
+ "proc-macro2",
+ "quote",
+ "syn",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "erased-serde"
 version = "0.3.21"
@@ -327,6 +381,15 @@
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 checksum = "349d5a591cd28b49e1d1037471617a32ddcda5731b99419008085f72d5a53836"
 
+[[package]]
+name = "link-cplusplus"
+version = "1.0.6"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "f8cae2cd7ba2f3f63938b9c724475dfb7b9861b545a90324476324ed21dbc8c8"
+dependencies = [
+ "cc",
+]
+
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 name = "log"
 version = "0.4.17"
@@ -465,6 +528,8 @@
 version = "0.1.0"
 dependencies = [
  "a2",
+ "cxx",
+ "cxx-build",
  "lazy_static",
  "tokio",
  "tracing",
@@ -489,6 +554,12 @@
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 checksum = "f3f6f92acf49d1b98f7a81226834412ada05458b7364277387724a237f062695"
 
+[[package]]
+name = "scratch"
+version = "1.0.2"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "9c8132065adcfd6e02db789d9285a0deb2f3fcb04002865ab67d5fb103533898"
+
 [[package]]
 name = "sct"
 version = "0.6.1"
@@ -560,6 +631,15 @@
  "unicode-ident",
 ]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "termcolor"
+version = "1.1.3"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "bab24d30b911b2376f3a13cc2cd443142f0c81dda04c118693e35b3835757755"
+dependencies = [
+ "winapi-util",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "thiserror"
 version = "1.0.31"
@@ -673,6 +753,12 @@
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 checksum = "5bd2fe26506023ed7b5e1e315add59d6f584c621d037f9368fea9cfb988f368c"
 
+[[package]]
+name = "unicode-width"
+version = "0.1.9"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "3ed742d4ea2bd1176e236172c8429aaf54486e7ac098db29ffe6529e0ce50973"
+
 [[package]]
 name = "untrusted"
 version = "0.7.1"
@@ -800,6 +886,15 @@
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 checksum = "ac3b87c63620426dd9b991e5ce0329eff545bccbbb34f3be09ff6fb6ab51b7b6"
 
+[[package]]
+name = "winapi-util"
+version = "0.1.5"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "70ec6ce85bb158151cae5e5c87f95a8e97d2c0c4b001223f33a334e3ce5de178"
+dependencies = [
+ "winapi",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "winapi-x86_64-pc-windows-gnu"
 version = "0.4.0"
diff --git a/services/tunnelbroker/rust-notifications/Cargo.toml b/services/tunnelbroker/rust-notifications/Cargo.toml
--- a/services/tunnelbroker/rust-notifications/Cargo.toml
+++ b/services/tunnelbroker/rust-notifications/Cargo.toml
@@ -11,6 +11,10 @@
 tokio = { version = "1.14", features = ["rt-multi-thread"]}
 lazy_static = "1.4"
 a2 = "0.6"
+cxx = "1.0"
+
+[build-dependencies]
+cxx-build = "1.0"
 
 [lib]
 crate-type=["staticlib"]