Barretenberg, an optimized elliptic curve library for the bn128 curve, and PLONK SNARK prover

This code is highly experimental, use at your own risk!

Dependencies

• cmake >= 3.24
• Ninja (used by the presets as the default generator)
• clang >= 10 or gcc >= 10
• clang-format
• libomp (if multithreading is required. Multithreading can be disabled using the compiler flag -DMULTITHREADING 0)
• wasm-opt (part of the Binaryen toolkit)

To install on Ubuntu, run:

sudo apt-get install cmake clang clang-format ninja-build binaryen

Installing openMP (Linux)

Install from source:

git clone -b release/10.x --depth 1 https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project.git \
  && cd llvm-project && mkdir build-openmp && cd build-openmp \
  && cmake ../openmp -DCMAKE_C_COMPILER=clang -DCMAKE_CXX_COMPILER=clang++ -DLIBOMP_ENABLE_SHARED=OFF \
  && cmake --build . --parallel \
  && cmake --build . --parallel --target install \
  && cd ../.. && rm -rf llvm-project

Or install from a package manager, on Ubuntu:

sudo apt-get install libomp-dev

Note: on a fresh Ubuntu Kinetic installation, installing OpenMP from source yields a Could NOT find OpenMP_C (missing: OpenMP_omp_LIBRARY) (found version "5.0") error when trying to build Barretenberg. Installing from apt worked fine.

Getting started

Run the bootstrap script. (The bootstrap script will build both the native and wasm versions of barretenberg)

cd cpp
./bootstrap.sh

Installing

After the project has been built, such as with ./bootstrap.sh, you can install the library on your system:

cmake --install build

Formatting

Code is formatted using clang-format and the ./cpp/format.sh script which is called via a git pre-commit hook. If you've installed the C++ Vscode extension you should configure it to format on save.

Testing

Each module has its own tests. e.g. To build and run ecc tests:

# Replace the `default` preset with whichever preset you want to use
cmake --build --preset default --target ecc_tests
cd build
./bin/ecc_tests

A shorthand for the above is:

# Replace the `default` preset with whichever preset you want to use
cmake --build --preset default --target run_ecc_tests

Running the entire suite of tests using ctest:

cmake --build --preset default --target test

You can run specific tests, e.g.

./bin/ecc_tests --gtest_filter=scalar_multiplication.*

Benchmarks

Some modules have benchmarks. The build targets are named <module_name>_bench. To build and run, for example ecc benchmarks.

# Replace the `default` preset with whichever preset you want to use
cmake --build --preset default --target ecc_bench
cd build
./bin/ecc_bench

A shorthand for the above is:

# Replace the `default` preset with whichever preset you want to use
cmake --build --preset default --target run_ecc_bench

CMake Build Options

CMake can be passed various build options on its command line:

• -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Debug | Release | RelWithAssert: Build types.
• -DDISABLE_ASM=ON | OFF: Enable/disable x86 assembly.
• -DDISABLE_ADX=ON | OFF: Enable/disable ADX assembly instructions (for older cpu support).
• -DMULTITHREADING=ON | OFF: Enable/disable multithreading using OpenMP.
• -DTESTING=ON | OFF: Enable/disable building of tests.
• -DBENCHMARK=ON | OFF: Enable/disable building of benchmarks.
• -DFUZZING=ON | OFF: Enable building various fuzzers.

If you are cross-compiling, you can use a preconfigured toolchain file:

• -DCMAKE_TOOLCHAIN_FILE=<filename in ./cmake/toolchains>: Use one of the preconfigured toolchains.

WASM build

To build:

cmake --preset wasm
cmake --build --preset wasm --target barretenberg.wasm

The resulting wasm binary will be at ./build-wasm/bin/barretenberg.wasm.

To run the tests, you'll need to install wasmtime.

curl https://wasmtime.dev/install.sh -sSf | bash

Tests can be built and run like:

cmake --build --preset wasm --target ecc_tests
wasmtime --dir=.. ./bin/ecc_tests

To add gtest filter parameters in a wasm context:

wasmtime --dir=.. ./bin/ecc_tests run --gtest_filter=filtertext

Fuzzing build

For detailed instructions look in cpp/docs/Fuzzing.md

To build:

cmake --preset fuzzing
cmake --build --preset fuzzing

Fuzzing build turns off building tests and benchmarks, since they are incompatible with libfuzzer interface.

To turn on address sanitizer add -DADDRESS_SANITIZER=ON. Note that address sanitizer can be used to explore crashes. Sometimes you might have to specify the address of llvm-symbolizer. You have to do it with export ASAN_SYMBOLIZER_PATH=<PATH_TO_SYMBOLIZER>. For undefined behaviour sanitizer -DUNDEFINED_BEHAVIOUR_SANITIZER=ON. Note that the fuzzer can be orders of magnitude slower with ASan (2-3x slower) or UBSan on, so it is best to run a non-sanitized build first, minimize the testcase and then run it for a bit of time with sanitizers.

Test coverage build

To build:

cmake --preset coverage
cmake --build --preset coverage

Then run tests (on the mainframe always use taskset and nice to limit your influence on the server. Profiling instrumentation is very heavy):

taskset 0xffffff nice -n10 make test

And generate report:

make create_full_coverage_report

The report will land in the build directory in the all_test_coverage_report directory.

Alternatively you can build separate test binaries, e.g. honk_tests or numeric_tests and run make test just for them or even just for a single test. Then the report will just show coverage for those binaries.

VS Code configuration

A default configuration for VS Code is provided by the file barretenberg.code-workspace. These settings can be overridden by placing configuration files in .vscode/.