The symbolic execution engine powering the K Framework
Kore is the "core" part of the K framework.
In short, we need a formal semantics of K. In K, users can define formal syntax and semantics of programming languages as K definitions, and automatically obtain parsers, interpreters, compilers, and various verification tools for their languages. Therefore K is a language-independent framework.
Thanks to years of research in matching logic and reachability logic, we know that all K does can be nicely formalized as logic reasoning in matching logic. To give K a formal semantics, we only need to formally specify the underlying matching logic theories with which K does reasoning. In practice, these underlying theories are complex and often infinite, and it is tricky to specify infinite theories without a carefully designed formal specification language. And Kore is such a language.
The
/docsdirectory contains a comprehensive document Semantics of K that describes the mathematical foundation of Kore, and a BNF grammar that defines the syntax of Kore language.
The
koreproject is an implementation in Haskell of a Kore parser and symbolic execution engine, for use with the K Framework as a backend.
Besides git, you will need stack or cabal to build
kore.
stack build kore # or cabal build kore
If using
cabal, version 3.0 or later is recommended.
Developers will require all the dependencies listed above, in addition to the requirements and recommendations below.
For integration testing, we require:
Instead of installing the frontend, you can use our
Dockerfileto run the integration tests inside a container. Use
docker.shto run commands inside the container:
./docker/build.sh # run once when dependencies change ./docker/run.sh make ...
For setting up a development environment, we recommend:
./entr.shto keep important files up-to-date.
We recommend to keep
./entr.shrunning in the background to keep important files (such as package descriptions) up-to-date, especially if the developer is using Cabal.
To run a language server, developers will need to activate the appropriate
hie.yamlfile:
ln -s hie-stack.yaml hie.yaml # for Stack # or ln -s hie-cabal.yaml hie.yaml # for Cabal # or ln -s hie-bios.yaml hie.yaml # if all else fails
The project's dependencies must be installed before starting the language server:
stack build --test --bench --only-dependencies # or cabal build --enable-tests --enable-benchmarks --only-dependencies kore
We provide a
shell.nixexpression with a suitable development environment and a binary cache at kore.cachix.org. The development environment is intended to be used with
nix-shelland
cabal.
When the
.cabalpackage description file changes, run:
# Requires Nix to be installed. ./nix/rematerialize.sh
This script is also run by an automatic workflow.