tobiaskappe / petr4

Petr4: Formal Semantics for P4

Welcome to Petr4

The Petr4 project is developing the formal semantics of the P4 Language backed by an independent reference implementation.

Getting Started

Installing Petr4

1. Install OPAM 2 following the official OPAM installation instructions. Make sure opam --version reports version 2 or later.

2. Install external dependencies:

   sudo apt-get install m4 libgmp-dev
   

Installing from OPAM

1. Install petr4 from the opam repository. This will take a while the first time because it installs OPAM dependencies.

   opam install petr4
   

Installing from source

1. Check the installed version of OCaml:

   ocamlc -v
   

   If the version is less than 4.09.0, upgrade:

   opam switch 4.09.0
   

2. Install p4pp from source.

3. Use OPAM to install dependencies.

   opam install . --deps-only
   

4. Build binaries using the supplied Makefile

   make
   

5. Install binaries in local OPAM directory

   make install
   

6. [Optional] Run tests

   make test
   

Running Petr4

Currently petr4 is merely a P4 front-end. By default, it will parse a source program to an abstract syntax tree and print it out, either as P4 or encoded into JSON.

Run petr4 -help to see the list of currently-supported options.

Web user interface

petr4 uses js_of_ocaml to provide a web interface. To compile to javascript, run make web. Then open index.html in html_build in a browser.

Contributing

Petr4 is an open-source project. We encourage contributions! Please file issues on Github.

Credits

See the list of contributors.

License

Petr4 is released under the Apache2 License.