This repository has some Ewasm contracts written in C.

• src directory has source code for contracts.
• wasm and wat directories have output .wasm and .wat files.
• tests directory contains scout yaml files.
• old_ewasm_1_stuff directory contains old things which have not yet been ported to scout.

Dependencies are executables: wabt (wasm2wat, wat2wasm), binaryen (wasm-opt), llvm8+ (clang, opt, llc, wasm-ld), and optionally scout (scout). If you don't have any of these, download and compile these locally into this directory as follows, or just copy that recipe from the Makefile.

Wabt

git clone https://github.com/webassembly/wabt.git
cd wabt; mkdir wabt/build; cd wabt/build
cmake -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release -DBUILD_TESTS=OFF ..
make -j4
cd ../..

Binaryen

git clone https://github.com/WebAssembly/binaryen.git
cd binaryen; mkdir build; cd build
cmake -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release ..
make -j4
cd ../..

LLVM

git clone https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project.git	# big download
cd llvm-project; mkdir build; cd build
cmake -G 'Unix Makefiles' -DLLVM_ENABLE_PROJECTS="clang;libcxx;libcxxabi;lld" ../llvm
make -j4	# warning: long compilation time, need lots of ram and disk, may crash and need to be restarted

LLVM builtins -- Needed for things like __multi3() which do multiplciation of two 64-bit integers to a 128-bit integer.

wget https://github.com/CraneStation/wasi-sdk/releases/download/wasi-sdk-5/libclang_rt.builtins-wasm32-wasi-5.0.tar.gz
tar -xvzf libclang_rt.builtins-wasm32-wasi-5.0.tar.gz

Scout (optional)

git clone https://github.com/poemm/scout.cpp.git
cd scout.c; mkdir build; cd build
cmake ..
make
cd ../..
cp scout.cpp/build/scout.exec .

Update paths to dependencies in Makefile variables LLVM_DIR, WABT_DIR, BINARYEN_DIR, and SCOUT_DIR. Or just keep those variables empty and update $PATH to the directories with the above executables. Or pass those paths as arguments to make.

# compile blake2b reference implementation to Wasm
make blake2b_ref

# same as above, but with custom paths to tools, if you don't want to set paths in Makefile
make blake2b_ref WABT_DIR=wabt/build/ BINARYAN_DIR=binaryen/build/bin/ LLVM_DIR=llvm-project/build/bin/

# compile a custom my_contract.c
make PROJECT=my_contract SRC_DIR=path/to/my_contract/src/dir/

# run a test in scout, assuming scout is installed to the location using above: make scoutcpp-install
cd wasm
../scout.exec ../tests/helloworld.yaml
cd ..

WARNING: Ewasm is not yet finalized. This toolchain is changing. There are experiments in the src directory.

NOTE ABOUT C++: Basic things like std::vector require memory managment, which most standard C++ libraries implement as system calls. Ewasm doesn't support system calls, so memory management must be done in Wasm. So far, a custom malloc() is in ewasm.h, but other things are still needed before we can try to compile against C++ standard library without requiring system calls. Anyway, std::vector may be expensive to use on-chain.