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About

Creusot is a deductive verifier for Rust code. It verifies your code is safe from panics, overflows, and assertion failures. By adding annotations you can take it further and verify your code does the correct thing.

Creusot works by translating Rust code to WhyML, the verification and specification language of Why3. Users can then leverage the full power of Why3 to (semi)-automatically discharge the verification conditions!

See ARCHITECTURE.md for technical details.

Help and Discussions

If you need help using Creusot or would like to discuss, you can post on the discussions forum or join our Zulip chat!

Citing Creusot

If you would like to cite Creusot in academic contexts, we encourage you to use our ICFEM'22 publication.

Examples of Verification

To get an idea of what verifying a program with Creusot looks like, we encourage you to take a look at some of our test suite:

• Zeroing out a vector
• Binary search on Vectors
• Sorting a vector
• IterMut
• Normalizing If-Then-Else Expressions

More examples are found in creusot/tests/should_succeed.

Projects built with Creusot

• CreuSAT is a verified SAT solver written in Rust and verified with Creusot. It really pushes the tool to its limits and gives an idea of what 'use in anger' looks like.
• Another big project is in the works :)

Installing Creusot as a user

1. Install rustup, to get the suitable Rust toolchain
2. Get opam, the package manager for OCaml
3. Clone the creusot repository, then move into the creusot directory for the rest of the setup.

   $ git clone https://github.com/creusot-rs/creusot
   $ cd creusot
   

4. Set up Why3 and Why3find. Create a local opam switch with why3:

   $ opam switch create -y . ocaml.5.3.0
   $ eval $(opam env)
   

   This will build why3, why3find, and their ocaml dependencies in a local _opam directory.
5. Install Creusot:

   $ ./INSTALL
   

   The installation consists of:
   • the cargo-creusot executable in ~/.cargo/bin/;
   • the creusot-rustc executable in ~/.local/share/creusot/toolchains/$TOOLCHAIN/bin;
   • SMT solvers (Alt-Ergo, CVC4, CVC5, Z3) in ~/.local/share/creusot/bin;
   • configuration files in ~/.config/creusot/.

Configuring the installation

You can create a text file INSTALL.opts to remember command-line options to be passed to the installation script. Type ./INSTALL --help for a list of possible options. For example:

echo "--external z3" > INSTALL.opts
./INSTALL

Upgrading Creusot

1. Enter the cloned Creusot git repository used previously to install Creusot
2. Update Creusot's sources:

   $ git pull
   

3. Upgrade Why3 if needed:

   $ eval $(opam env)
   $ opam update
   $ opam pin . -y
   

4. Reinstall Creusot:

   $ ./INSTALL
   

Verifying with Creusot and Why3

• To learn how to write code with creusot: guide
• To see the API of creusot_contracts (creusot's "standard library"): creusot_contracts API

Hacking on Creusot

See HACKING.md for information on the developer workflow for hacking on the Creusot codebase.