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solana-program-sdk-zig

Write Solana on-chain programs in Zig!

If you want a more complete program example, please see the solana-helloworld-zig repo, which also provides tests and a CLI.

Other Zig Packages for Solana Program development

Here are some other packages to help with developing Solana programs with Zig:

• Base-58
• Bincode
• Borsh
• Solana Program Library
• Metaplex Token-Metadata

Prerequisites

Requires a Solana-compatible Zig compiler, which can be built with solana-zig-bootstrap.

It's also possible to download an appropriate compiler for your system from the GitHub Releases.

You can run the convenience script in this repo to download the compiler to solana-zig:

./install-solana-zig.sh
./solana-zig/zig build test

How to use

1. Add this package to your project:

zig fetch --save https://github.com/joncinque/solana-program-sdk-zig/archive/refs/tags/v0.15.1.tar.gz

2. (Optional) if you want to generate a keypair during building, you'll also need to install base58 and clap:

zig fetch --save https://github.com/joncinque/base58-zig/archive/refs/tags/v0.13.3.tar.gz
zig fetch --save https://github.com/Hejsil/zig-clap/archive/refs/tags/0.9.1.tar.gz

3. In your build.zig, add the modules that you want one by one, or use the helpers in build.zig:

const std = @import("std");
const solana = @import("solana-program-sdk");
const base58 = @import("base58");

pub fn build(b: *std.build.Builder) !void {
    // Choose the on-chain target (bpf, sbf v1, sbf v2, etc)
    // Many targets exist in the package, including `bpf_target`,
    // `sbf_target`, and `sbfv2_target`.
    // See `build.zig` for more info.
    const target = b.resolveTargetQuery(solana.sbf_target);
    // Choose the optimization. `.ReleaseFast` gives optimized CU usage
    const optimize = .ReleaseFast;
    // Define your program as a shared library
    const program = b.addSharedLibrary(.{
        .name = "program_name",
        // Give the root of your program, where the entrypoint is defined
        .root_source_file = b.path("src/main.zig"),
        .optimize = optimize,
        .target = target,
    });
    // Use the `buildProgram` helper to create the solana-sdk module, and link
    // the program properly.
    const solana_mod = solana.buildProgram(b, program, target, optimize);

    // Install the program artifact
    b.installArtifact(program);

    // Optional: to generate a keypair in `zig-out/lib`, be sure to run this too:
    base58.generateProgramKeypair(b, program);

    // Optional, but if you define unit tests in your program files, you can run
    // them with `zig build test` with this step included
    const test_step = b.step("test", "Run unit tests");
    const lib_unit_tests = b.addTest(.{
        .root_source_file = b.path("src/main.zig"),
    });
    lib_unit_tests.root_module.addImport("solana-program-sdk", solana_mod);
    const run_unit_tests = b.addRunArtifact(lib_unit_tests);
    test_step.dependOn(&run_unit_tests.step);
}

4. Setup src/main.zig:

const solana = @import("solana-program-sdk");

export fn entrypoint(_: [*]u8) callconv(.C) u64 {
    solana.print("Hello world!", .{});
    return 0;
}

5. Download the solana-zig compiler using the script in this repository:

$ ./install-solana-zig.sh

6. Build and deploy your program on Solana devnet:

$ ./solana-zig/zig build --summary all
Program ID: FHGeakPPYgDWomQT6Embr4mVW5DSoygX6TaxQXdgwDYU

$ solana airdrop -ud 1
Requesting airdrop of 1 SOL

Signature: 52rgcLosCjRySoQq5MQLpoKg4JacCdidPNXPWbJhTE1LJR2uzFgp93Q7Dq1hQrcyc6nwrNrieoN54GpyNe8H4j3T

882.4039166 SOL

$ solana program deploy -ud zig-out/lib/program_name.so
Program Id: FHGeakPPYgDWomQT6Embr4mVW5DSoygX6TaxQXdgwDYU

And that's it!

Targets available

The helpers in build.zig contain various Solana targets. Here are their analogues to the Rust build tools:

• sbf_target -> cargo build-sbf
• sbfv2_target -> cargo build-sbf --arch sbfv2
• Deprecated bpf_target -> cargo build-bpf

Unit tests

The unit tests require the solana-zig compiler as mentioned in the prerequisites.

You can run all unit tests for the library with:

./solana-zig/zig build test --summary all

Integration tests

There are also integration tests that build programs and run against the Agave runtime using the solana-program-test crate.

You can run these tests using the test.sh script:

cd program-test/
./test.sh

These tests require a Rust compiler along with the solana-zig compiler, as mentioned in the prerequisites. Be sure to run ./install-solana-zig.sh first.