If you are unfamiliar with the RISC-V instruction set, please have a look at the RISC-V instruction set reference.

Below are instructions for setting up development environment. For instructions on enrolling CI machines, see the notion page

You can open this repository in GitHub Codespaces, click on Create new codespace and start developing straight away in your browser. All build requirements will be taken care of. You can stop or resume the instance anytime. (You can also find the '<> Code' button on the top right of the main page of the repository on GitHub to access the codespaces you created. See the Codespaces documentation for background information.)

Mozak VM is built in Rust, so installing the Rust toolchain is a pre-requisite, if you want to develop on your local machine.

Because we are using nightly versions of Rust toolchain we prefer to use nightly versions of rust-analyzer which can understand those nightly releases of Rust.

Previously, we were specifying rust-analyzer as a component in rust-toolcahin.toml, however this made an artificial restriction on the version of toolchain we could use if rust-analyzer would break on our codebase. In addition, it is much easier to update rust-analyzer once it is fixed, rather than update the whole Rust toolchain.

Therefore we recommed to let Developer handle the version of rust-analyzer thay want to use. Most editors can automatically download the latest version of rust-analyzer:

• VSCode extension will download the latest version of rust-analyzer. If you need the nightly version, you can switch to pre-release version of the VSCode extension;
• Zed will automatically download the latest nightly version of rust-analyzer;
• Emacs and NeoVim can be pointed to manually installed rust-analyzer binary downloaded from the GitHub Releases Page.

Please use rust-analyzer released after 2024-04-01.

In order for rust-analyzer to work with code that targets mozakvm we need to

• start it with the right configuration, and
• prevent it from building test crate.

Rust does not provide prebuilt std for neither for MozakVM, nor for riscv32-im which MozakVM is based on, therefore we need to build our version of std by using -Zbuild-std feature. However, that also requires that we specify restricted_std in crates that we build, which will break test crate, as it it not marked by restricted_std.

In Visual Studio Code:

• instead of opening the whole project, use Open Folder... to open the directory containing .cargo directory that specifies a mozakvm taget in .cargo/config.toml.

• in the same directory containing .cargo, create .vscode directory and put the following in .vscode/settings.json:

  {
    "rust-analyzer.cargo.allTargets": false,
  }

By opening the directory containing .cargo directly, we ensure that rust-analyzer will pick the configuration from it. By setting rust-analyzer.cargo.allTargets to false, we prevent rust-analyzer from passing --all-targets to cargo, which will prevent building the test crate.

For example, to open mozak-vm/sdk directory in Visual Studio Code, we

• open mozak-vm/sdk directory directly,
• add rust-analyzer.cargo.allTargets: false to mozak-vm/sdk/.vscode/settings.json, and
• reload Visual Studio Code window to reload the configuration.

If you are experiencing issues with Rust analyzer you can check if it can correctly analyse our codebase from the command line. Remember to figure out the location of your rust-analyzer binary used by your text editor.

Start by running rust-analyzer analysis-stats on our codebase

mozak-vm $ rust-analyzer analysis-stats .
Database loaded:     1.99s, 0b (metadata 359.47ms, 0b; build 823.73ms, 0b)
  item trees: 194
Item Tree Collection: 72.07ms, 0b
  crates: 20, mods: 311, decls: 4142, bodies: 3161, adts: 336, consts: 256
Item Collection:     7.70s, 0b
Body lowering:       1.01s, 0b
  exprs: 98389, ??ty: 73 (0%), ?ty: 37 (0%), !ty: 7
  pats: 17493, ??ty: 4 (0%), ?ty: 6 (0%), !ty: 0
Inference:           65.56s, 0b
MIR lowering:        8.71s, 0b
Mir failed bodies: 25 (0%)
Data layouts:        56.44ms, 0b
Failed data layouts: 3 (1%)
Const evaluation:    109.09ms, 0b
Failed const evals: 4 (1%)
Total:               83.22s, 0b

If it doesn't report any panics then your version rust-analyzer should be able to handle our codebase.

If it panics, then you should report it as a bug to rust-analyzer upstream.

You can try to narrow down a code sample. One helpful tool is rust-analyzer highlight which can be run on a particular source file, but be warned that some errors span multiple files, and won't be picked by rust-analyzer hightlight.

cargo build

To run all the tests in this repo, use:

cargo test

Selectively run tests using the following command:

cargo test --package <pkg> --lib -- <testname> --exact --nocapture

For example:

cargo test --package mozak-circuits --lib -- cross_table_lookup::tests::test_ctl --exact --nocapture

We have a rudimentary CLI. You can run it via eg cargo run -- -vvv run vm/tests/testdata/rv32ui-p-addi.

Use cargo run -- --help to see what sub-commands are implemented.

• Docker

Updating the official RISC-V tests relies on Docker to install the RISC-V toolchain and build the ELF files necessary for our tests to run.

The Mozak VM implements the base RV32I instruction set with the M-extension, so we are using rv32ui and rv32um ELF files from the riscv-software-src/riscv-tests repo.

You can update the tests via ./update_testdata in the root of the repository.

To update the Rust toolchain you need to

• update rust-toolchain.toml, and
• update flake.nix.

The easiest way to update flake.nix is to set the sha256 in packages.rust-toolchain to an empty string "":

        packages.rust-toolchain = pkgs.fenix.fromToolchainFile {
          file = ./rust-toolchain.toml;
          sha256 = "";
        };

and then try to build rust-toolchain using nix build --no-link .#rust-toolchain. Nix will then assume a default hash, and then report a hash mismatch. You can then copy the reported hash back to the file.

$ nix build --no-link .#rust-toolchain
warning: found empty hash, assuming 'sha256-AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA='
<...>
         specified: sha256-AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA=
            got:    sha256-kfnhNT9AcZARVovq9+6aay+4rOV3G7ZRdmMQdbd9+Pg=

Welcome to zk-backed high throughput stateful network!

• See building for building the components for running the system.
• See contributing for guidelines on contributions towards to the codebase.

• sdk/ hosts interfaces for building programs for the platform.
• rpc/ hosts server implementation for RPC interactions with the platform.
• node-cli/ hosts command-line interface for managing running nodes.

Architecture docs along with other design overwiews are available in docs/. Relevant docs are inter-spread in the codebase as comments.

All crates of this monorepo are licensed under either of

• Apache License, Version 2.0, (LICENSE-APACHE or http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0)
• MIT license (LICENSE-MIT or http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT)

at your option.