A multi-engine, parallel, SMT-based automatic model checker for safety properties of Lustre programs.
Kind 2 takes as input a Lustre file annotated with properties to prove invariant (see Lustre syntax), and outputs which of the properties are true for all inputs, as well as an input sequence for those properties that are falsified. To ease processing by front-end tools, Kind 2 can output its results in XML format.
Kind 2 runs a process for bounded model checking (BMC), a process for k-induction, and a process for IC3 in parallel on all properties simultaneously. It incrementally outputs counterexamples to properties as well as properties proved invariant.
The following command-line options control its operation (run kind2 --help for a full list).
--enable {BMC|IND|PDR} Select model checking engines
By default, all three model checking engines are run in parallel. Give any combination of --enable BMC, --enable IND and --enable PDR to select which engines to run. The option --enable BMC alone will not be able to prove properties valid, choosing --enable IND only will not produce any results. Any other combination is sound (properties claimed to be invariant are indeed invariant) and counterexample-complete (a counterexample will be produced for each property that is not invariant, given enough time and resources).
--timeout_wall SECS Run for SECS seconds of wall clock time
--timeout_virtual SECS Run for SECS of CPU time
--smtsolver {Z3|CVC4|mathsat5} Select SMT solver
The default is Z3, but see options of the ./build.sh script to override at compile time
--z3_bin PROGRAM Executable for Z3
--cvc4_bin PROGRAM Executable for CVC4
--mathsat5_bin PROGRAM Executable for MathSat5
--bmc_max K Run bounded model checking for up to K steps
-v Output informational messages
-xml Output in XML format
- Linux or Mac OS X,
- OCaml 4.01 or later,
- Camlp4
- Menhir parser generator, and
- a supported SMT solver
- Z3 (presently recommended),
- CVC4, (must use
--pdr_tighten_to_unsat_core false) or - MathSat5
If you got the sources from the Github repository, you need to run first
./autogen.sh
By default, kind2 will be installed into /usr/local/bin, an operation for which you usually need to be root. Call
./build.sh --prefix=PATH
to install the Kind 2 binary into PATH/bin. You can omit the option to accept the default path of /usr/local/bin. This command will configure and build ZeroMQ, CZMQ, the OCaml bindings and Kind 2. If it has been successful, call
make install
to install the Kind 2 binary into the chosen location. If you need to pass options to the configure scripts of any of ZeroMQ, CZMQ, the OCaml bindings or Kind 2, add these to the build.sh call. Use ./configure --help after autogen.sh to see all available options.
You need a supported SMT solver, at the momemt either Z3, CVC4 or MathSat5 on your path when running kind2.