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This PR adds initial support for building RISC-V runtimes targeting PolkaVM. - Setting the `SUBSTRATE_RUNTIME_TARGET=riscv` environment variable will now build a RISC-V runtime instead of a WASM runtime. - This only adds support for *building* runtimes; running them will need a PolkaVM-based executor, which I will add in a future PR. - Only building the minimal runtime is supported (building the Polkadot runtime doesn't work *yet* due to one of the dependencies). - The builder now sets a `substrate_runtime` cfg flag when building the runtimes, with the idea being that instead of doing `#[cfg(not(feature = "std"))]` or `#[cfg(target_arch = "wasm32")]` to detect that we're building a runtime you'll do `#[cfg(substrate_runtime)]`. (Switching the whole codebase to use this will be done in a future PR; I deliberately didn't do this here to keep this PR minimal and reviewable.) - Further renaming of things (e.g. types, environment variables and proc macro attributes having "wasm" in their name) to be target-agnostic will also be done in a future refactoring PR (while keeping backwards compatibility where it makes sense; I don't intend to break anyone's workflow or create unnecessary churn). - This PR also fixes two bugs in the `wasm-builder` crate: * The `RUSTC` environment variable is now removed when invoking the compiler. This prevents the toolchain version from being overridden when called from a `build.rs` script. * When parsing the `rustup toolchain list` output the `(default)` is now properly stripped and not treated as part of the version. - I've also added a minimal CI job that makes sure this doesn't break in the future. (cc @paritytech/ci) cc @athei ------ Also, just a fun little tidbit: quickly comparing the size of the built runtimes it seems that the PolkaVM runtime is slightly smaller than the WASM one. (`production` build, with the `names` section substracted from the WASM's size to keep things fair, since for the PolkaVM runtime we're currently stripping out everything) - `.wasm`: 625505 bytes - `.wasm` (after wasm-opt -O3): 563205 bytes - `.wasm` (after wasm-opt -Os): 562987 bytes - `.wasm` (after wasm-opt -Oz): 536852 bytes - `.polkavm`: ~~580338 bytes~~ 550476 bytes (after enabling extra target features; I'll add those in another PR once we have an executor working) --------- Co-authored-by: Bastian Köcher <git@kchr.de>
NOTE: We have recently made significant changes to our repository structure. In order to streamline our development process and foster better contributions, we have merged three separate repositories Cumulus, Substrate and Polkadot into this repository. Read more about the changes here.
Polkadot SDK
The Polkadot SDK repository provides all the resources needed to start building on the Polkadot network, a multi-chain blockchain platform that enables different blockchains to interoperate and share information in a secure and scalable way. The Polkadot SDK comprises three main pieces of software:
Polkadot
Implementation of a node for the https://polkadot.network in Rust, using the Substrate framework. This directory
currently contains runtimes for the Polkadot, Kusama, Westend, and Rococo networks. In the future, these will be
relocated to the runtimes repository.
Substrate
Substrate is the primary blockchain SDK used by developers to create the parachains that make up the Polkadot network. Additionally, it allows for the development of self-sovereign blockchains that operate completely independently of Polkadot.
Cumulus
Cumulus is a set of tools for writing Substrate-based Polkadot parachains.
Releases
Note
Our release process is still Work-In-Progress and may not yet reflect the aspired outline here.
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RELEASE.md.
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changes. It will receive bug fixes, security fixes, performance fixes and new non-breaking features on a two week
cadence.
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