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README.md
Nimbus: an Ethereum 2.0 Sharding Client for Resource-Restricted Devices
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Rationale
Nimbus: an Ethereum 2.0 Sharding Client. The code in this repository is currently focusing on Ethereum 1.0 feature parity, while all 2.0 research and development is happening in parallel in nim-beacon-chain. The two repositories are expected to merge in Q1 2019.
Development Updates
To keep up to date with changes and development progress, follow the Nimbus blog.
Building & Testing
Prerequisites
-
A recent version of Facebook's RocksDB
- Compile from source or use the package manager of your OS; for example, Debian, Ubuntu, and Fedora have working RocksDB packages
- on Windows, you can download pre-compiled DLLs
-
GNU make, Bash and the usual POSIX utilities
Obtaining the prerequisites through the Nix package manager
Users of the Nix package manager can install all prerequisites simply by running:
nix-shell nimbus.nix
Build & Develop
POSIX-compatible OS
To build Nimbus (in "build/nimbus"), just execute:
make
Running ./build/nimbus --help
will provide you with a list of
the available command-line options. To start syncing with mainnet, just execute ./build/nimbus
without any parameters.
To execute all tests:
make test
To pull the latest changes in all the Git repositories involved:
git pull
make update
To run a command that might use binaries from the Status Nim fork:
./env.sh vim
Our Wiki provides additional helpful information for debugging individual test cases and for pairing Nimbus with a locally running copy of Geth.
Windows
Install Mingw-w64 for your architecture using the "MinGW-W64 Online Installer" (first link under the directory listing). Run it and select your architecture in the setup menu ("i686" on 32-bit, "x86_64" on 64-bit), set the threads to "win32" and the exceptions to "dwarf" on 32-bit and "seh" on 64-bit. Change the installation directory to "C:\mingw-w64" and add it to your system PATH in "My Computer"/"This PC" -> Properties -> Advanced system settings -> Environment Variables -> Path -> Edit -> New -> C:\mingw-w64\mingw64\bin (it's "C:\mingw-w64\mingw32\bin" on 32-bit)
Install Git for Windows and use a "Git Bash" shell to clone and build Nimbus.
If you don't want to compile RocksDB and SQLite separately, you can fetch pre-compiled DLLs with:
mingw32-make fetch-dlls
This will place the right DLLs for your architecture in the "build/" directory.
You can now follow those instructions in the previous section by replacing make
with mingw32-make
(regardless of your 32-bit or 64-bit architecture).
Development tips
-
you can switch the DB backend with a Nim compiler define:
-d:nimbus_db_backend=...
where the (case-insensitive) value is one of "rocksdb" (the default), "sqlite", "lmdb" -
the Premix debugging tools are documented separately
Git submodule workflow
Working on a dependency:
cd vendor/nim-chronicles
git checkout -b mybranch
# make some changes
git status
git commit -a
git push origin mybranch
# create a GitHub PR and wait for it to be approved and merged
git checkout master
git pull
git branch -d mybranch
# realise that the merge was done without "--no-ff"
git branch -D mybranch
# update the submodule's commit in the superproject
cd ../..
git status
git add vendor/nim-chronicles
git commit
It's important that you only update the submodule commit after it's available upstream.
You might want to do this on a new branch of the superproject, so you can make a GitHub PR for it and see the CI test results.
Don't update all Git submodules at once, just because you found the relevant
Git command or make
target. You risk updating submodules to other people's
latest commits when they are not ready to be used in the superproject.
Adding the submodule "https://github.com/status-im/foo" to "vendor/foo":
./add_submodule.sh status-im/foo
Removing the submodule "vendor/bar":
git submodule deinit -f -- vendor/bar
git rm -f vendor/bar
Checking out older commits, either to bisect something or to reproduce an older build:
git checkout <commit hash here>
make -j8 clean update
Running a dependency's test suite using nim
instead of nimble
(which cannot be
convinced not to run a dependency check, thus clashing with our jury-rigged
"vendor/.nimble/pkgs"):
cd vendor/nim-blscurve
../../nimble.sh test
Troubleshooting
Report any errors you encounter, please, if not already documented!
Sometimes, the build will fail even though the latest CI is green - here are a few tips to handle this:
Using the Makefile
- Turn it off and on again:
make clean update
Using Nimble directly
- Wrong Nim version
- We depend on many bleeding-edge features - Nim regressions often happen
- Use the Status fork of Nim
- Wrong versions of dependencies
- nimble dependency tracking often breaks due to its global registry
- wipe the nimble folder and try again
- C compile or link fails
- Nim compile cache is pretty buggy and sometimes will fail to recompile
- wipe your nimcache folder
License
Licensed and distributed under either of
- MIT license: LICENSE-MIT or http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT
or
- Apache License, Version 2.0, (LICENSE-APACHEv2 or http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0)
at your option. These files may not be copied, modified, or distributed except according to those terms.