KreMLin is a tool that extracts an F* program to readable C code. If the F* program verifies against a low-level memory model that talks about the stack and the heap; if it is first-order; if it obeys certain restrictions (e.g. non-recursive data types) then KreMLin will turn it into C.
The best way to learn about KreMLin is its work-in-progress tutorial. Pull requests and feedback are welcome!
- DESIGN.md has a technical overview of the different transformation passes performed by KreMLin, and is slightly out of date.
This work has been formalized on paper. We state that the compilation of such F* programs to C preserves semantics. We start from Low*, a subset of F*, and relate its semantics to CompCert's Clight.
- the ICFP 2017 Paper provides an overview of KreMLin as well as a paper formalization of our compilation toolchain
We have written 20,000 lines of low-level F* code, implementing the TLS 1.3 record layer. As such, KreMLin is a key component of Project Everest.
- HACL*, our High Assurance Crypto Library, provides numerous cryptographic primitives written in F*; these primitives enjoy memory safety, functional correctness, and some degree of side-channel resistance -- they extract to C via KreMLin.
KreMLin requires OCaml (> 4.04.0), OPAM, and a recent version of GNU make.
Regarding GNU make: On OSX, this may require you to install a recent GNU
make via homebrew, and invoke gmake instead of make.
Regarding OCaml: Install OPAM via your package manager, then:
$ opam install ppx_deriving_yojson zarith pprint menhir ulex process fix wasm visitors
Next, make sure you have an up-to-date F*, and that you ran make in the
ulib/ml directory of F*. The fstar.exe executable should be on your PATH
and FSTAR_HOME should point to the directory where F* is installed.
To build just run make from this directory.
Note: on OSX, KreMLin is happier if you have greadlink installed (brew install coreutils).
If you have the right version of F* and fstar.exe is in your PATH then you
can run the KreMLin test suite by doing make test.
File a bug if things don't work!
The --help flag contains a substantial amount of information.
$ ./krml --help
Kremlin is released under the Apache 2.0 license; see LICENSE for more details.