Rust bindings to the ECC's zcash_script
C++ library.
This crate works by manually including the zcash_script
.h and .cpp files,
using bindgen
to generate Rust bindings, and compiling everything together
into a single library. Due to the way the zcash_script
is written we unfortunately need
to include a lot of other stuff e.g. the orchard library.
Note that zcash_script
(the C++ library/folder inside zcash
) uses some Rust
FFI functions from zcash
; and it also links to librustzcash
which is written in Rust.
Therefore, when updating zcash_script
(this crate), we need to make sure that shared dependencies
between all of those are the same versions (and are patched to the same revisions, if applicable).
To do that, check for versions in:
zcash/Cargo.toml
in the revision pointed to by this crate (also check for patches)librustzcash/Cargo.toml
in the revision pointed to by zcash
(also check for patches)librustzcash/<crate>/Cargo.toml
in the revision pointed to by zcash
depend/zcash
We keep a copy of the zcash source in depend/zcash
with the help of git subtree
.
It has one single difference that must be enforced every time it's updated: the root
Cargo.toml
must be deleted, since otherwise cargo will ignore the entire folder
when publishing the crate (see https://github.com/rust-lang/cargo/issues/8597).
However, git subtree
requires merge commits in order to make further updates
work correctly. Since we don't allow those in our repository, we start over
every time, basically using it as a glorified git clone
. This issue is being
tracked in https://github.com/ZcashFoundation/zcash_script/issues/35.
If you need to update the zcash source, run:
console
git rm -r depend/zcash
(commit changes)
git subtree add -P depend/zcash https://github.com/zcash/zcash.git <ref> --squash
git rm depend/zcash/Cargo.toml
(commit changes)
where <ref>
is a reference to a branch, tag or commit (it should be a tag when preparing
a release, but it will be likely a branch or commit when testing).
Releases for zcash-script
are made with the help of cargo release.
Checklist:
CHANGELOG.md
to document any major changes since the last release
https://github.com/rust-lang/cargo/issues/8597)master
cargo release -- <level>
where level
can be patch
, minor
, or major
(source)NOTE: It's important to specify the level when using cargo release because of the way it implements the substitutions. We specify a number of automatic substitutions in Cargo.toml
but they will only be applied if cargo release
also handles incrementing the version itself, do not increment the version by hand and then run cargo release
or cargo release -- release
, or it will not correctly update all version references in the codebase.