Ivan FB b6c19b415d
feat: replace nim-libp2p protobuf with nim-protobuf-serialization
libp2p was pulled in solely for its `minprotobuf` field codec, dragging
in its full transitive tree (secp256k1, nimcrypto, websock, etc.). Swap
it for nim-protobuf-serialization, whose low-level `codec` module gives
the same protobuf wire primitives without the networking stack.

The wire/snapshot codecs build messages by hand at the field level and
rely on a backward-compatible decode path the type-driven
`Protobuf.encode/decode` API cannot express. To keep that code intact,
`protobufutil.nim` is a thin `ProtoBuffer` shim over the new `codec`
module, preserving the exact field-level behaviour the codecs depend on
(plain varints, length-delimited bytes/strings with no UTF-8 validation,
unknown-wire-type fields skipped as protoc does).

Dependency closure (nimble.lock, nix/deps.nix) regenerated accordingly:
libp2p and its 8 exclusive transitive deps dropped, protobuf_serialization
and its npeg dependency added.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-06-10 20:18:18 +02:00
2026-04-10 14:23:30 +02:00
2026-04-10 14:23:30 +02:00
2026-02-03 19:05:46 +00:00

nim-sds

Nim implementation of the e2e reliability protocol.

Prerequisites

  • Nix package manager

Quick start

git clone https://github.com/logos-messaging/nim-sds.git
cd nim-sds

# Build the shared library
nix build '.#libsds'

# Run tests
nix develop --command nimble test

Building

Desktop

nix build --print-out-paths '.#libsds'

Android

nix build --print-out-paths '.#libsds-android-arm64'
nix build --print-out-paths '.#libsds-android-amd64'
nix build --print-out-paths '.#libsds-android-x86'
nix build --print-out-paths '.#libsds-android-arm'

iOS

nix build --print-out-paths '.#libsds-ios'
Development shell

Enter the dev shell:

nix develop

Build using nimble tasks:

# Dynamic library (auto-detects OS)
nimble libsdsDynamicMac    # macOS
nimble libsdsDynamicLinux  # Linux
nimble libsdsDynamicWindows # Windows

# Static library
nimble libsdsStaticMac     # macOS
nimble libsdsStaticLinux   # Linux
nimble libsdsStaticWindows # Windows

Run tests:

nimble test

The built library is output to build/.

Android (without Nix)

Download the latest Android NDK:

cd ~
wget https://dl.google.com/android/repository/android-ndk-r27c-linux.zip
unzip android-ndk-r27c-linux.zip

Add to ~/.bashrc:

export ANDROID_NDK_ROOT=$HOME/android-ndk-r27c
export PATH=$ANDROID_NDK_ROOT/toolchains/llvm/prebuilt/linux-x86_64/bin:$PATH

Then build:

ARCH=arm64 nimble libsdsAndroid
Architecture Command
arm64 ARCH=arm64 nimble libsdsAndroid
amd64 ARCH=amd64 nimble libsdsAndroid
x86 ARCH=x86 nimble libsdsAndroid

The library is output to build/libsds.so.

Dependency management

Dependencies are managed by Nimble and pinned via nimble.lock.

To set up dependencies locally:

nimble setup -l

To update dependencies:

nimble lock

After updating nimble.lock, the Nix outputHash in nix/deps.nix must be recalculated by running nix build and updating the hash from the error output.

License

Licensed under either of Apache License, Version 2.0 or MIT license at your option.

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