Wire CDT (Contract Development Toolkit)

Wire Contract Development Toolkit (CDT) is a C/C++ toolchain targeting WebAssembly (WASM) and a set of tools to facilitate development of smart contracts written in C/C++ that are meant to be deployed to a Wire blockchain.

Branches

The master branch is the latest stable branch.

Supported Operating Systems

We currently support the following operating systems.

Operating Systems
Ubuntu 22.04 Jammy
Ubuntu 20.04 Focal
Ubuntu 18.04 Bionic

Installation

In the future, we plan to support the installation of Debian packages directly from our Release page, providing a more streamlined and convenient setup process. However, for the time being, installation requires building the software from source.

Building from source

The instructions below assume that you are building on Ubuntu 20.04. and 22.04.

Install dependencies

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install   \
        build-essential             \
        clang                       \
        clang-tidy                  \
        cmake                       \
        git                         \
        libxml2-dev                 \
        opam ocaml-interp           \
        python3                     \
        python3-pip                 \
        time

python3 -m pip install pygments

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Optional - Build with integration tests

Integration tests require access to a build of Wire Sysio.

If you do not wish to build Wire Sysio, you can skip this section and continue to Build CDT. Otherwise, follow the instructions below before running cmake.

First, ensure that Wire Sysio has been built from source (see README for details) and identify the build path, e.g. /path/to/wire-sysio/build/.

Then, execute the following command in the same terminal session that you will use to build CDT:

export sysio_DIR=/path/to/wire-sysio/build/lib/cmake/sysio

Now you can continue with the steps to build CDT as described. When you run cmake make sure that it does not report sysio package not found. If it does, this means CDT was not able to find a build of Wire Sysio at the specified path in sysio_DIR and will therefore continue without building the integration tests.

ccache

If issues persist with ccache when building CDT, you can disable ccache:

export CCACHE_DISABLE=1

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Build CDT

Warning

About Compilation Jobs (-j flag):

When building C/C++ software often the build is performed in > parallel via a command such as make -j $(nproc) which uses the > number of CPU cores as the number of compilation jobs to perform > simultaneously. However, be aware that some compilation units (.cpp > files) in CDT are extremely complex and can consume a large amount > of memory to compile. If you are running into issues due to amount > of memory available on your build host, you may need to reduce the > level of parallelization used for the build. For example, instead of > make -j $(nproc) you can try make -j2. Failures due to memory > exhaustion will typically but not always manifest as compiler > crashes.

Use the commands below to clone this repository along with its submodules, set up the build environment, and compile the project:

git clone --recursive https://github.com/Wire-Network/wire-cdt && cd wire-cdt && mkdir build && cd build 
cmake ..
make -j $(nproc)

The binaries will be located at in the build/bin directory.

You can export the path to the directory to your PATH environment variable which allows you to conveniently use them to compile contracts without installing CDT globally.

Alternatively, you can use CMake toolchain file located in build/lib/cmake/CDTWasmToolchain.cmake to compile the contracts in your CMake project, which also allows you to avoid installing CDT globally.

If you would prefer to install CDT globally, see the section Install CDT below.

Note

If you wish to build with integration tests, you cmake command would be: cmake -Dsysio_DIR=/home/svetla/repos/leap-5-rename/leap/build/lib/cmake/sysio ..

Build CDT in Debug mode

To build CDT in debug mode (with debug symbols) you need to add the following flags to cmake command:

cmake -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE="Debug" -DTOOLS_BUILD_TYPE="Debug" -DLIBS_BUILD_TYPE="Debug" ..

Generate the .deb

cd build/packages && bash ./generate_package.sh deb ubuntu-22.04 amd64

Run tests

Run unit tests

cd build

ctest

Run integration tests (if CDT was build with integration tests)

cd build/tests/integration

ctest

Install CDT

Installing CDT globally on your system will install the following tools in a location accessible to your PATH:

• cdt-abidiff
• cdt-ar
• cdt-cc
• cdt-cpp
• cdt-init
• cdt-ld
• cdt-nm
• cdt-objcopy
• cdt-objdump
• cdt-ranlib
• cdt-readelf
• cdt-strip
• sysio-pp
• sysio-wasm2wast
• sysio-wast2wasm

It will also install CMake files for CDT accessible within a cmake/cdt directory located within your system's lib directory.

Manual installation

One option for installing CDT globally is via make install. From within the build directory, run the following command:

sudo make install

Package installation

A better option for installing CDT globally is to generate a package and then install the package. This makes uninstalling CDT much easier.

From within the build directory, run the following commands to generate a Debian package:

cd packages
bash ./generate_package.sh deb ubuntu-20.04 amd64
sudo apt install ./cdt_*_amd64.deb

Uninstall CDT

Uninstall CDT(if installed via make install)

sudo rm -fr /usr/local/cdt
sudo rm -fr /usr/local/lib/cmake/cdt
sudo rm /usr/local/bin/sysio-*
sudo rm /usr/local/bin/cdt-*

Uninstall CDT( if installed via apt install)

sudo apt remove cdt

License

FSL-1.1-Apache-2.0

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