evmc/README.md

EVMC

Ethereum Client-VM Connector API

The EVMC is the low-level ABI between Ethereum Virtual Machines (EVMs) and Ethereum Clients. On the EVM side it supports classic EVM1 and ewasm. On the Client-side it defines the interface for EVM implementations to access Ethereum environment and state.

Usage

Documentation

Please visit the documentation.

Languages support

Language	Supported Versions	Supported Compilers
C	C90, C99, C11	GCC 6+, clang 3.8+
C++ (helpers)1	C++11, C++14, C++17	GCC 6+, clang 3.8+
Go (bindings)	1.9, 1.10, 1.11

Related projects

EVMs

• aleth-interpreter
• evmjit
• Hera

Clients

• aleth
• nim-evmc
• go-ethereum (in progress)
• pyevm (in progress)
• pyethereum (abandoned)

Maintainers

• Alex Beregszaszi @axic
• Paweł Bylica @chfast

See also the list of EVMC Authors.

Contributing

Talk with us on the EVMC Gitter chat.

License

Licensed under the MIT License.

Internal

Making new release

1. Update CHANGELOG.md, put the release date, update release link.
2. git add CHANGELOG.md.
3. Tag new release: bumpversion --allow-dirty prerel.
4. Prepare CHANGELOG for next release: add unreleased section and link.
5. git add CHANGELOG.md.
6. Start new release series: bumpversion --allow-dirty --no-tag minor.

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1. C++ support is provided by C headers and some optional C++ helpers. ↩︎