In this repository, we provide a model of the EVM in K.
bash <(curl https://kframework.org/install): install kup package manager.kup install kevm: install KEVM.kup list kevm: list available KEVM versions.kup update kevm: update to latest KEVM version.NOTE: The first run will take longer to fetch all the libraries and compile sources. (30m to 1h)
These may be useful for learning KEVM and K (newest to oldest):
To get support for KEVM, please join our Discord Channel.
If you want to start proving with KEVM, refer to VERIFICATION.md.
The following files constitute the KEVM semantics:
These additional files extend the semantics to make the repository more useful:
#buf byte-buffer abstraction for use during symbolic execution.#hashedLocation abstraction used to specify Solidity-generated storage layouts.These files are used for testing the semantics itself:
There are two backends of K available: LLVM for concrete execution and Haskell for symbolic execution.
This repository generates the build-products for each backend in $XDG_CACHE_HOME/evm-semantics-<digest>.
Run install-build-deps to install the required OS-supplied dependencies.
There are some additional notes for specific systems:
Ubuntu:
libsecp256k1-dev and instead
build it from source (via our Makefile) using make libsecp256k1.Arch:
MacOS:
flex and
XCode.PATH
is set up correctly before running make deps or make k-deps. You can
do so using direnv by copying macos-envrc to
.envrc, then running direnv allow.If the build on macOS still fails, you can also try adding the following
lines to the top of your Makefile under UNAME_S:
ifeq ($(UNAME_S), Darwin) SHELL := /usr/local/bin/bash PATH := $(pwd)/.build/usr/bin:$(PATH) endif
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=$HOME/.local/bin:$PATHYou need to install the K Framework on your system, see the instructions there. The fastest way is via the kup package manager, with which you can do to get the correct version of K:
kup install k.openssl --version v$(cat deps/k_release)You can also drop into a single development shell with the correct version of K on path by doing:
kup shell k.openssl --version v$(cat deps/k_release)First you need to set up a virtual environment using Poetry with the prerequisites python 3.8.*, pip >= 20.0.2, poetry >= 1.3.2:
make poetryYou also need to get the blockchain plugin submodule and install it.
git submodule update --init --recursive
poetry -C kevm-pyk run kdist --verbose build evm-semantics.pluginTo change the default compiler:
CXX=clang++-15 poetry -C kevm-pyk run kdist --verbose build evm-semantics.pluginOn Apple silicon:
APPLE_SILICON=true poetry -C kevm-pyk run kdist --verbose build evm-semantics.pluginFinally, you can build the semantics.
poetry -C kevm-pyk run kdist --verbose build -j6You can build specific targets using options evm-semantics.{llvm,kllvm,kllvm-runtime,haskell,haskell-standalone,plugin}, e.g.:
poetry -C kevm-pyk run kdist build -j2 evm-semantics.llvm evm-semantics.haskellTargets can be cleaned with
poetry -C kevm-pyk run kdist cleanFor more information, refer to kdist --help and the dist.py module.
To execute tests from the Ethereum Test Set, the submodule needs to be fetched first.
git submodule update --init --recursive -- tests/ethereum-testsThe tests are run using the supplied Makefile.
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.All these targets call pytest under the hood. You can pass additional arguments to the call by appending them to variable PYTEST_ARGS. E.g. run
make test-vm PYTEST_ARGS+=-vvto execute VMTests with increased verbosity, and
make test-vm PYTEST_ARGS+=-n0to execute them on a single worker.
Files produced by test runs, e.g. kompiled definition and logs, can be found in /tmp/pytest-of-<user>/.
If built from the source, the kevm-pyk executable will be installed in a virtual environment handled by Poetry.
You can call kevm-pyk --help to get a quick summary of how to use the script.
Run the file tests/ethereum-tests/BlockchainTests/GeneralStateTests/VMTests/vmArithmeticTest/add0.json:
poetry -C kevm-pyk run kevm-pyk run tests/ethereum-tests/BlockchainTests/GeneralStateTests/VMTests/vmArithmeticTest/add0.json --schedule DEFAULT --mode VMTESTSTo enable the debug symbols for the llvm backend, build using this command:
poetry -C kevm-pyk run kdist build evm-semantics.llvm --arg enable-llvm-debug=trueTo debug a conformance test, add the --debugger flag to the command:
poetry -C kevm-pyk run kevm-pyk run tests/ethereum-tests/BlockchainTests/GeneralStateTests/stExample/add11.json --target llvm --mode NORMAL --schedule SHANGHAI --chainid 1 --debuggerAlways have your build up-to-date.
kup install kevm --version . to install the local version.make poetry needs to be re-run if you touch any of the kevm-pyk code.poetry -C kevm-pyk run kdist build <target> --force needs to be re-run if you touch any of this repos files.poetry -C kevm-pyk run kdist clean is a safe way to remove the target directoryWe now support building KEVM using nix flakes.
To set up nix flakes you will need to be on nix 2.4 or higher and follow the instructions here.
For example, if you are on a standard Linux distribution, such as Ubuntu, first install nix
and then enable flakes by editing either ~/.config/nix/nix.conf or /etc/nix/nix.conf and adding:
experimental-features = nix-command flakesThis is needed to expose the Nix 2.0 CLI and flakes support that are hidden behind feature-flags.
By default, Nix will build the project and its transitive dependencies from source, which can take up to an hour. We recommend setting up the binary cache to speed up the build process significantly.
To build KEVM, run:
nix build .#kevmThis will build all of KEVM and K and put a link to the resulting binaries in the result/ folder.
NOTE: Mac users, especially those running M1/M2 Macs may find nix segfaulting on occasion. If this happens, try running the nix command like this: GC_DONT_GC=1 nix build .
If you want to temporarily add the kevm binary to the current shell, run
nix shell .#kevmNix can also be used to quickly profile different versions of the Haskell backend. Simply run:
nix build github:runtimeverification/evm-semantics#profile \
--override-input k-framework/haskell-backend github:runtimeverification/haskell-backend/<HASH> \
-o prof-<HASH>replacing <HASH> with the commit you want to run profiling against.
If you want to profile against a working version of the Haskell backend repository, simply cd into the root of the repo and run:
nix build github:runtimeverification/evm-semantics#profile \
--override-input k-framework/haskell-backend $(pwd) \
-o prof-my-featureTo compare profiles, you can use:
nix run github:runtimeverification/evm-semantics#compare-profiles -- prof-my-feature prof-<HASH>This will produce a nice table with the times for both versions of the haskell-backend.
Note that #profile pre-pends the output of kore-exec --version to the profile run, which is then used as a tag by the #compare-profiles script.
Therefore, any profiled local checkout of the haskell-backend will report as dirty-ghc8107 in the resulting table.
This repository can build two pieces of documentation for you, the Jello Paper and the 2017 Devcon3 presentation.
For the presentations in the media directory, you'll need pdflatex, commonly provided with texlive-full, and pandoc.
sudo apt install texlive-full pandocTo build all the PDFs (presentations and reports) available in the media/ directory, use:
make mediaFor more information about the K Framework, refer to these sources: