Ledger Core Library

• Clone project
• Dependencies
  • Build
  • External dependencies:
• Build of C++ library
  • Building for JNI
  • Build library on docker
• Documentation
• Binding to node.js
  • Using the node module
  • Generating a new node module for your system
• Test NodeJs
• 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:

• Qt5 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 -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/path/to/qt5 ../lib-ledger-core && make

(macOSX users) If you struggle to find where Qt5 is located, for example, on macOSX, qt5 can be found at:

/usr/local/Cellar/qt/<qt_version>/bin

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.

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 on docker

You can build the core library or debug it from a docker image:

1. Build the image docker build -t ledger-core-env . (considering that you are currently at the root of the repository)
2. Run the image docker run -ti --cap-add=SYS_PTRACE --security-opt seccomp=unconfined ledger-core-env
3. Notice that stopping a container will wipe it. If you need multiple instance over the same container one way is to start the container as a daemon and then get a shell on it.
   1. Start the container as daemon docker run --cap-add=SYS_PTRACE --security-opt seccomp=unconfined -d ledger-core-env
   2. Get the container ID with docker ps
   3. Open shells docker exec -ti :container_id zsh where :container_id has to be replaced by the container you got from docker ps

Note: If you feel on fire you could use docker volumes to persist data.

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.

Test NodeJs

node ledger-core-samples/nodejs/tests/wallet-pool-test.js

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