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https://github.com/erigontech/silkworm
C++ implementation of the Ethereum protocol
https://github.com/erigontech/silkworm
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C++ implementation of the Ethereum protocol
- Host: GitHub
- URL: https://github.com/erigontech/silkworm
- Owner: erigontech
- License: apache-2.0
- Created: 2020-06-11T14:22:43.000Z (over 4 years ago)
- Default Branch: master
- Last Pushed: 2024-10-29T09:32:11.000Z (16 days ago)
- Last Synced: 2024-10-29T10:04:19.148Z (16 days ago)
- Topics: cpp, ethereum
- Language: C++
- Homepage:
- Size: 123 MB
- Stars: 277
- Watchers: 12
- Forks: 66
- Open Issues: 110
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Metadata Files:
- Readme: README.md
- Contributing: docs/CONTRIBUTING.md
- License: LICENSE
- Authors: AUTHORS
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README
# Silkworm - C++ Ethereum Execution Client
C++ implementation of the [Ethereum] Execution Layer (EL) protocol based on the [Erigon architecture].
[](https://circleci.com/gh/erigontech/silkworm)
[](https://github.com/erigontech/silkworm/actions/workflows/macOS.yml)
[](https://github.com/erigontech/silkworm/actions/workflows/windows.yml)
[](https://codecov.io/gh/erigontech/silkworm)
[](https://github.com/erigontech/silkworm/actions/workflows/rpc-integration-tests.yml)
[](https://github.com/erigontech/silkworm/actions/workflows/rpc-performance-tests.yml)
## Table of Contents
- [About Silkworm](#about)
- [About Silkworm for Erigon, aka Erigon++](#erigon++)
- [Obtaining Source Code](#source-code)
- [Building on Linux & macOS](#build-on-unix)
- [Building on Windows](#build-on-windows)
- [Testing Silkworm](#testing)
- [Contributing](#contributing)
- [License](#license)
Silkworm is a greenfield C++ implementation of the Ethereum protocol based on the [Erigon architecture].
It aims to be the fastest Ethereum client while maintaining the high quality and readability of its source code.
Silkworm uses [libmdbx] as the database engine.
Silkworm was conceived as an evolution of the [Erigon] project, as outlined in its [release commentary](https://ledgerwatch.github.io/turbo_geth_release.html#Licence-and-language-migration-plan-out-of-scope-for-the-release).
Silkworm is under active development and hasn't reached the alpha phase yet.
Hence, there have been no releases so far.
## About Silkworm for Erigon a.k.a. Erigon++
At the very beginning, one of the main goals of Silkworm was implementing high-performance C++ libraries to be used
directly within Erigon itself. Recently we focused again on this initial target, making it our highest priority and
delivering the first release of [Erigon++] starting from Erigon 2.59.0.
Erigon++ is supported on platforms:
* Linux x86_64 with glibc 34+, glibcpp 30+ (such as Debian 12+, Ubuntu 22+, etc.)
* macOS 14+ arm64
It is not supported on any arm64 Linux, Alpine Linux.
Test compatibility by running [silkworm_compat_check.sh](https://github.com/erigontech/erigon/blob/main/turbo/silkworm/silkworm_compat_check.sh)
Please note that Erigon++ is just a fancy name for identifying such usage of Silkworm libraries within Erigon, which can
be selectively enabled by specifying optional flags in Erigon command-line.
There are two possible usages of Erigon++:
* as a user, you may want to test Erigon++ features out of the box: in this case, no Silkworm build is required, you
just build Erigon as usual and then enable any of the command-line flags:
```
--silkworm.exec [enables historical block execution powered by Silkworm]
--silkworm.rpc [enables Ethereum JSON-RPC API powered by Silkworm]
--silkworm.sentry [enables Execution Layer p2p networking powered by Silkworm]
```
* as a developer, you may want to experiment how you can build Erigon with Silkworm bindings and how you can play with
them together through [Cgo]. If you are interested, we have some documentation about the development process of our
[C API for Erigon](https://github.com/erigontech/silkworm/blob/master/docs/CONTRIBUTING.md#c-api-for-erigon).
To obtain Silkworm source code for the first time:
```
git clone --recurse-submodules https://github.com/erigontech/silkworm.git
cd silkworm
```
Silkworm uses a few git submodules (some of which have their own submodules).
So after you've updated to the latest code with
```
git pull
```
update the submodules as well by running
```
git submodule update --init --recursive
```
Building Silkworm requires:
* C++20 compiler: [GCC](https://www.gnu.org/software/gcc/) >= 11.2 or [Clang](https://clang.llvm.org/) >= 16
or AppleClang ([Xcode](https://developer.apple.com/xcode/) >= 15)
* [CMake](https://cmake.org)
* [Conan](https://conan.io)
Conan requires Python, and can be installed using:
pip3 install --user conan==1.64.1 chardet
On Linux the conan binary gets installed into `$HOME/.local/bin` which is typically in PATH already.
On macOS need to add the binary to PATH manually:
export "PATH=$HOME/Library/Python/3.9/bin:$PATH"
Once the prerequisites are installed, bootstrap cmake by running
```
mkdir build
cd build
cmake ..
```
(In the future you don't have to run `cmake ..` again.)
A custom Conan "profile" can be passed via a cmake argument, for example:
cmake .. -DCONAN_PROFILE=macos_arm64_clang_13_debug
will use "debug" configuration builds of dependencies.
See available profiles in [cmake/profiles](cmake/profiles).
The conan packages could also be pre-installed using [conan install](https://docs.conan.io/1/reference/commands/consumer/install.html):
conan install --install-folder=build/conan --build=missing --profile=cmake/profiles/macos_arm64_clang_13_debug .
Then run the build itself
```
make -j
```
_Note about parallel builds using `-j`: if not specified the exact number of parallel tasks, the compiler will spawn as many
as the cores available. That may cause OOM errors if the build is executed on a host with a large number of cores but a relatively
small amount of RAM. To work around this, either specify `-jn` where `n` is the number of parallel tasks you want to allow or
remove `-j` completely. Typically, for Silkworm each compiler job requires 4GB of RAM. So, if your total RAM is 16GB, for example,
then `-j4` should be OK, while `-j8` is probably not. It also means that you need a machine with at least 4GB RAM to compile Silkworm._
Now you can run the unit tests
```
make test
```
or the [Ethereum EL Tests]
```
cmd/test/ethereum
```
**Note! Windows builds are maintained for compatibility/portability reasons. However, due to the lack of 128-bit integers support by MSVC, execution performance is inferior when compared to Linux builds.**
* Install [Visual Studio] 2019. Community edition is fine.
* Make sure your setup includes CMake support and Windows 10 SDK.
* Install [Conan](https://conan.io) and add it to PATH.
* Open Visual Studio and select File -> CMake...
* Browse the folder where you have cloned this repository and select the file CMakeLists.txt
* Let CMake cache generation complete (it may take several minutes)
* Solution explorer shows the project tree.
* To build simply `CTRL+Shift+B`
* Binaries are written to `%USERPROFILE%\CMakeBuilds\silkworm\build` If you want to change this path simply edit `CMakeSettings.json` file.
**Note ! Memory compression on Windows 10/11**
Windows 10/11 provide a _memory compression_ feature which makes available more RAM than what physically mounted at cost of extra CPU cycles to compress/decompress while accessing data. As MDBX is a memory mapped file this feature may impact overall performances. Is advisable to have memory compression off.
Use the following steps to detect/enable/disable memory compression:
* Open a PowerShell prompt with Admin privileges
* Run `Get-MMAgent` (check whether memory compression is enabled)
* To disable memory compression : `Disable-MMAgent -mc` and reboot
* To enable memory compression : `Enable-MMAgent -mc` and reboot
**Note: at current state of development Silkworm can't actually sync the chain like Erigon does.**
You can try to run Silkworm to test just the sync on the *pre-Merge* Ethereum chain. In order to do that you need to:
- run an instance of `Erigon Sentry` component from branch `release/2.60`
- set the environment variable `STOP_AT_BLOCK` to a value < 15'537'351 (e.g. STOP_AT_BLOCK=15000000)
### Linux and macOS
#### Erigon Sentry
```
git clone --recurse-submodules https://github.com/erigontech/erigon.git
cd erigon
git checkout release/2.60
make sentry
./build/bin/sentry
```
#### Silkworm
```
export STOP_AT_BLOCK=15000000
./cmd/silkworm
```
### Windows
#### Erigon Sentry
```
git clone --recurse-submodules https://github.com/erigontech/erigon.git
cd erigon
git checkout release/2.60
make sentry
./build/bin/sentry.exe
```
#### Silkworm
```
$env:STOP_AT_BLOCK=15000000
./cmd/silkworm.exe
```
If you want to contribute, you can read our [contribution guidelines](docs/CONTRIBUTING.md).
Silkworm is licensed under the terms of the Apache license.
See [LICENSE](LICENSE) for more information.
[Ethereum]: https://ethereum.org
[Ethereum EL Tests]: https://github.com/ethereum/tests
[Erigon]: https://github.com/erigontech/erigon
[Erigon architecture]: https://github.com/erigontech/interfaces/blob/master/_docs/README.md
[Erigon++]: https://erigon.tech/erigonpp
[Cgo]: https://go.dev/blog/cgo
[GMP]: http://gmplib.org
[libmdbx]: https://github.com/erthink/libmdbx
[staged sync]: https://github.com/erigontech/erigon/blob/main/eth/stagedsync/README.md
[Visual Studio]: https://www.visualstudio.com/downloads
[Yellow Paper]: https://ethereum.github.io/yellowpaper/paper.pdf