Ledger Core Library

• Clone project
• Dependencies
  • Build
  • External dependencies:
• Build of C++ library
  • Building for JNI
  • Build library with PostgreSQL
• Documentation
• Binding to node.js
  • Using the node module
  • Generating a new node module for your system
• Support
  • Libcore:
  • Bindings:
• Developement guidelines
  • CI
• Q/A and troubleshooting
  • I have updated an include file and test code doesn’t see the changes!
  • I have upgraded my macOSX system and now I can’t compile anymore.

Core library which will be used by Ledger applications.

If you’re a developer and want to contribute, please refer to our contribution guidelines specific documentation.

Clone project

git clone --recurse-submodules https://github.com/LedgerHQ/lib-ledger-core.git

If you had already forked / cloned the repository before issuing that command, it’s okay. You can initiate the submodules with the following commands:

cd lib-ledger-core
git submodule init
git submodule update

Dependencies

Build

This project is based on cmake as a build system so you should install it before starting (at least version 3.7).

External dependencies:

• OpenSSL is needed to build tests of the library.
• Generation of binding is automated with Djinni.
• Build on multiple Operating Systems is based on polly toolchains.

Build of C++ library

cmake is building out of source, you should create a build directory (e.g. lib-ledger-core-build):

.                           # Directory where clone command was launched
├── lib-ledger-core         # Source files directory
├── lib-ledger-core-build   # Build directory

If you respect this folder structure (and naming), after cd lib-ledger-core-build, you can build the library by running:

cmake -DSYS_OPENSSL=ON -DOPENSSL_ROOT_DIR=<path-to-openssl-root-dir>  -DOPENSSL_INCLUDE_DIR=<path-to-openssl-include-files>  -DOPENSSL_SSL_LIBRARIES=<path-to-openssl-libraries> -DOPENSSL_USE_STATIC_LIBS=TRUE ../lib-ledger-core && make

NB. if you want to build on Windows with Visual Studio by adding the argument -G "Visual Studio 16 2019" in the above cmake command, instead of using make to build the project, you should open the 'ledger-core.sln' solution file with Visual Studio and build the solution with it

If you struggle with how openssl is installed, for example, on macOSX, openssl can be installed with

brew install openssl

you can then use the argument -DOPENSSL_ROOT_DIR=/usr/local/opt/openssl in the above cmake command "DOPENSSL_INCLUDE_DIR" and "DOPENSSL_SSL_LIBRARIES" are not necessary on mac.

On Linux,

apt-get install libssl-dev

you can then use the argument -DOPENSSL_SSL_LIBRARIES=/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu -DOPENSSL_INCLUDE_DIR=/usr/include/openssl in the above cmake command "DOPENSSL_ROOT_DIR" is not necessary on linux.

On Windows, Openssl can be downloaded and installed from https://slproweb.com/products/Win32OpenSSL.html "DOPENSSL_ROOT_DIR" is then the installed path of Openssl in the above cmake command "DOPENSSL_INCLUDE_DIR" and "DOPENSSL_SSL_LIBRARIES" are not necessary on windows.

Several CMake arguments might interest you there:

• -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Debug: you should always set that when testing as you will get DWARF debug symbols and debugging instruments support.
• -DCMAKE_EXPORT_COMPILE_COMMANDS=YES: useful when you’re using a C++ linter, such as cquery.
• -G "Visual Studio 16 2019": build libcore with Visual Studio on Windows
• -G Xcode: build libcore with Xcode on Mac
• -DBUILD_TESTS=OFF: build libcore without unit tests. In this case, openssl arguments are not needed

Building for JNI

Building with JNI (Java Native Interface), allows you to use the library with Java based software. In order to enable JNI mode use

cmake -DTARGET_JNI=ON

This will add JNI files to the library compilation and remove tests. You need at least a JDK 7 to build for JNI (OpenJDK or Oracle JDK)

Build library with PostgreSQL

Dependencies

Make sure that your have PostgreSQL installed on your machine, otherwise the CMake command find_package(PostgreSQL REQUIRED) will fail during configuration.

Build

To compile libcore with PostgreSQL support, you should add -DPG_SUPPORT=ON to your CMake configuration command.

You also need to add -DPostgreSQL_INCLUDE_DIR=path/to/include/dir in your configuration as a hint for headers' location (e.g. /usr/include/postgresql).

Wallet Pool Configuration

To use with libcore, simply set value of the key api::PoolConfiguration::DATABASE_NAME to the database's URL connection and set it in the pool's configuration.

It is also possible to configure the size of the connection pool and read-only connection pool when instantiating the PostgreSQL DatabaseBackend : api::DatabaseBackend::getPostgreSQLBackend(int32_t connectionPoolSize, int32_t readonlyConnectionPoolSize).

Local testing

If you don't build the library with PostgreSQL, sqlite3 shall be used as Database. If you build the library with PostgreSQL, make sure to have a running PostgreSQL server or PostgreSQL docker container As an example, if you are running it on localhost:5432 and test_db as database name, database's name forwarded to the pool (through configuration key api::PoolConfiguration::DATABASE_NAME)
should look like : postgres://localhost:5432/test_db .
In order to run local tests

cd lib-ledger-core-build

On Linux or macOSX,

ctest

On Windows,

ctest -C Debug -VV

if you want to run only one specific unit test. (e.g. the test case BitcoinLikeWalletSynchronization.MediumXpubSynchronization in the test project ledger-core-integration-tests)

./core/test/integration/build/ledger-core-integration-tests "--gtest_filter=BitcoinLikeWalletSynchronization.MediumXpubSynchronization"

Documentation

You can generate the Doxygen documentation by running the doc target (for instance, make doc with makefiles).

Binding to node.js

The library can be compiled and integrated as an node module in a pretty straightforward way. You will be interested in either using it, or making a new version of the node module.

Using the node module

The lib-ledger-core-node-bindings repository contains the node.js bindings you will need to interface with lib-ledger-core. You can either clone the git repository or simply install from npm directly:

npm i @ledgerhq/ledger-core

Generating a new node module for your system

Generating bindings is a several steps process:

1. First, you need to make some changes to lib-ledger-core and generate a fresh version of lib-ledger-core.
2. Clone lib-ledger-core-node-bindings and edit the package.json file in order to remove or comment the "preinstall" line in "scripts".
3. In the folder of lib-ledger-core, run the tools/generateBindings.sh script by giving it the path to the bindings (i.e. where you cloned lib-ledger-core-node-bindings) and as second argument the path to the directory where you built the lib-ledger-core — it should be something like $(your-lib-ledger-core-dir)/../lib-ledger-core-build or $(your-lib-ledger-core-dir)/build.
   • This script requires an up-to-date djinni. To ensure it’s correctly up to date, go into lib-ledger-core/djinni and run get fetch origin --prune && git rebase origin/master.
   • You will need sbt and java8 for a complete, working install.
   • The script will generate files in both projects. You’re advised to remove the ones created in lib-ledger-core — if any — with a git checkout . and/or git reset ..
4. cd into lib-ledger-core-bindings and run yarn to generate the bindings.
5. You will have the module in build/Release/ledgerapp_nodejs.node in the bindings project.
6. npm i should install your own version.

Support

Libcore:

Libcore can be built for following OSes:

• MacOS: minimum supported version is macOS 9.0, with x86_64 architecture,
• Linux: Debian (stretch), Ubuntu and Arch are supported, with x86_64 architecture,
• Windows: 64-bit architecture is built with MSVC (starting from Visual Studio 15), 32-bit is built with MinGW,
• iOS: x86_64, armv7 and arm64 architectures are supported, minimum supported version is iOS 10.0,
• Android: x86, armeabi-v7a and arm64-v8a architectures are supported, minimum supported version is Android 7 (API 24) (Java 8 is needed).

Bindings:

• NodeJS bindings:
  • Please use node with version >=8.4.0 and <9.0.0 (other versions are not tested (yet)),
  • Node-gyp is used to build native module and requires python with version 2.7.x.

Developement guidelines

CI

You are advised to link your GitHub account to both CircleCI and Appveyor by signing-in. Because we are using shared runners and resources, we have to share CI power with other teams. It’s important to note that we don’t always need to run the CI. Example of situations when we do not need it:

• When we are updating documentation.
• When we are changing a tooling script that is not part of any testing suite (yet).
• When we are making a WIP PR that doesn’t require running the CI until everyone has agreed on the code (this is a tricky workflow but why not).

In those cases, please include the [skip ci] or [ci skip] text in your commit message’s title. You could tempted to put it in the body of your message but that will not work with Appveyor.

Finally, it’s advised to put it on every commit and rebase at the end to remove the [skip ci] tag from your commits’ messags to have the CI re-enabled, but some runners might be smart enough to do it for all commits in the PR.

Rebasing is done easily. If your PR wants to merge feature/stuff -> develop, you can do something like this — assuming you have cloned the repository with a correctly set origin remote:

git checkout feature/stuff
git rebase -i origin/develop

Change the pick to r or reword at the beginning of each lines without changing the text of the commits — this has no effect. Save the file and quit. You will be prompted to change the commits’ messages one by one, allowing you to remove the [skip ci] tag from all commits.

Q/A and troubleshooting

I have updated an include file and test code doesn’t see the changes!

Currently, interface files (headers, .hpp) are not linked by copied directly into the test directory. That means that every time you make a change in the interface that is tested by any code in core/test/, you need to update the copy.

Just run this command:

cd $your_build_folder
rm -rf CMakeFiles CMakeCache.txt

I have upgraded my macOSX system and now I can’t compile anymore.

Especially if you’ve upgraded to Mojave for which there are some breaking changes, you will need to perform some manual tasks — here, for macOSX Mojave:

xcode-select --install
open /Library/Developer/CommandLineTools/Packages/macOS_SDK_headers_for_macOS_10.14.pkg