In this repository we provide a model of the EVM in K.
These may be useful for learning KEVM and K (newest to oldest):
- Jello Paper, generated using Sphinx Documentation Generation.
- 20 minute tour of the semantics at 2017 Devcon3.
- KEVM 1.0 technical report, especially sections 3 and 5.
- KEVM Paper at CSF'18/FLoC.
To get support for KEVM, please join our Riot Room.
The following files constitute the KEVM semantics:
- krypto.md sets up some basic cryptographic primitives.
- data.md provides the (functional) data of EVM (256 bit words, wordstacks, etc...).
- network.md provides the status codes which are reported to an Ethereum client on execution exceptions.
- evm.md is the main KEVM semantics, containing the configuration and transition rules of EVM.
These additional files extend the semantics to make the repository more useful:
- driver.md is an execution harness for KEVM, providing a simple language for describing tests/programs.
- edsl.md defines high-level notations of eDSL, a domain-specific language for EVM specifications, for formal verification of EVM bytecode using K Reachability Logic Prover.
- evm-node.md is the protobuf interface that an external Ethereum client can connect to for using KEVM as the execution engine.
There are four backends of K available: LLVM (default) and OCaml for concrete execution and Java (default) and Haskell for symbolic execution.
This repository generates the build-products for each backend in .build/defn/
.
The following are needed for building/running KEVM:
- git
- Pandoc >= 1.17 is used to generate the
*.k
files from the*.md
files. - GNU Bison, Flex, and Autoconf.
- GNU libmpfr and libtool.
- Java 8 JDK (eg. OpenJDK)
- Opam, important: Ubuntu users prior to 15.04 must build from source, as the Ubuntu install for 14.10 and prior is broken.
opam repository
also requiresrsync
.
On Ubuntu >= 18.04 (for example):
sudo apt install \
autoconf bison clang++-8 clang-8 cmake curl flex gcc git \
libboost-test-dev libgmp-dev libjemalloc-dev libmpfr-dev \
libprocps-dev libprotobuf-dev libsecp256k1-dev libtool \
libyaml-dev libz3-dev lld-8 llvm-8 llvm-8-tools make maven \
opam openjdk-11-jdk pandoc pkg-config protobuf-compiler \
z3 zlib1g-dev
On Ubuntu < 18.04, you'll need to skip libsecp256k1-dev
and instead build it from source (via our Makefile
):
make libsecp256k1
On ArchLinux:
sudo pacman -S \
base base-devel boost clang cmake crypto++ curl git gmp \
jdk-openjdk jemalloc libsecp256k1 lld llvm maven mpfr \
opam python stack yaml-cpp z3 zlib
On OSX, using Homebrew, after installing the command line tools package:
brew tap caskroom/cask
brew cask install adoptopenjdk12
brew install automake libtool gmp mpfr pkg-config pandoc maven opam z3 libffi
make libsecp256k1
NOTE: a previous version of these instructions required the user to run brew link flex --force
.
After fetching this revision, you should first run brew unlink flex
, as it is no longer necessary and will cause an error if you have the homebrew version of flex installed instead of the xcode command line tools version.
- Haskell Stack.
Note that the version of the
stack
tool provided by your package manager might not be recent enough. Please follow installation instructions from the Haskell Stack website linked above.
To upgrade stack
(if needed):
stack upgrade
export PATH=$HOME/.local/bin:$PATH
Get the submodules:
git submodule update --init --recursive
And finally build the repository specific dependencies:
make RELEASE=1 deps
If you are a developer, you probably should omit RELEASE
from the above commands unless you are testing performance, as the build is somewhat slower.
On Arch, instead do:
make LIBFF_CC=clang LIBFF_CXX=clang++ RELEASE=1 deps
Finally, you can install repository specific dependencies and build the semantics:
make build RELEASE=1
You can also build specific backends as so:
make build-haskell
make build-llvm RELEASE=1
make build-java
If you wish to build the OCaml backend, you will need to take some additional steps.
First, make sure you have our custom OCaml compiler installed (should only need to do this once):
./deps/k/k-distribution/src/main/scripts/bin/k-configure-opam-dev
Next you need to install the specific OCaml packages we requires:
make ocaml-deps
And next you can build the OCaml backend:
make build-ocaml
To install the kevm-vm
binary for use in Firefly and other full-nodes, do:
make install RELEASE=1
You can set DESTDIR
and INSTALL_PREFIX
to change where the installation goes.
After building the definition, you can run the definition using ./kevm
.
Read the ./kevm
script for examples of the actual invocations of krun
that ./kevm
makes.
Run the file tests/ethereum-tests/VMTests/vmArithmeticTest/add0.json
:
./kevm run tests/ethereum-tests/VMTests/vmArithmeticTest/add0.json
To run proofs, you can similarly use ./kevm
.
For example, to prove one of the specifications:
./kevm prove tests/specs/ds-token-erc20/transfer-failure-1-a-spec.k -m VERIFICATION
The tests are run using the supplied Makefile
.
First, run make split-tests
to generate some of the tests from the markdown files.
The following subsume all other tests:
make test
: All of the quick tests.make test-all
: All of the quick and slow tests.
These are the individual test-suites (all of these can be suffixed with -all
to also run slow tests):
make test-vm
: VMTests from the Ethereum Test Set.make test-bchain
: Subset of BlockchainTests from the Ethereum Test Set.make test-proof
: Proofs from the Verified Smart Contracts.make test-interactive
: Tests of the./kevm
command.
When running tests with the Makefile
, you can specify the TEST_CONCRETE_BACKEND
(for concrete tests), or TEST_SYMBOLIC_BACKEND
(for proofs).
This repository can build two pieces of documentation for you, the Jello Paper and the 2017 Devcon3 presentation.
If you also want to build the Jello Paper, you'll additionally need:
- Sphinx Documentation Generation tool, and
- The K Editor Support Python
pygments
package.
sudo apt install python-pygments python-sphinx python-recommonmark
git clone 'https://github.com/kframework/k-editor-support'
cd k-editor-support/pygments
easy_install --user .
For the 2017 Devcon3 presentation, you'll need pdflatex
, commonly provided with texlive-full
.
sudo apt install texlive-full
The Makefile supplies targets for building:
- All media in this list:
make media
- Jello Paper documentation:
make sphinx
- 2017 Devcon3 presentation:
make 2017-devcon3
- EVM Yellowpaper: Original specification of EVM.
- LEM Semantics of EVM
For more information about The K Framework, refer to these sources:
- The K Tutorial
- Semantics-Based Program Verifiers for All Languages
- Reachability Logic Resources
- Matching Logic Resources
- Logical Frameworks: Discussion of logical frameworks.