go-callvis for quorum packages about go-callvis

[sjeeva]

incidentally I also stumbled on the same issue!! Any thoughts on how to resolve this?

[ondrajz]

Target needs to be a program. github.com/jpmorganchase/quorum doesn't seem to be a program. Try one of the programs in cmd folder.

[MichaelMure]

@TrueFurby any plan to support libraries ?

[ondrajz]

Main package (program) is required for the analysis used, because all the calls in the callgraph tree begins in main (and inits).

In normal package (library) you don't really know what will be called, since it's just a package without some start point. Program that will use the package can call anything or nothing.

[MichaelMure]

Instead of a single entry point (main()) you could have multiple entry points (every exported function).

But I understand it might not be easy or even possible depending on the code you have. Just stating that it would be very helpful to understand a codebase.

[ondrajz]

You easily do that by creating a simple program and placing all the calls you are interested in, for example exported functions of some package, and running go-callvis on that program.