z3-sys

Low-level rust bindings to the Z3 SMT solver

Licensed under the MIT license.

See https://github.com/Z3Prover/z3 for details on Z3.

Documentation

The API is fully documented with examples: https://docs.rs/z3-sys/

Installation

This crate works with Cargo and is on crates.io. Add it to your project with cargo add:

$ cargo add z3-sys

Finding Z3 Libraries

Note: This library has a dependency on Z3.

There are 4 ways for this crate to currently find Z3:

By default, it will look for a system-installed copy of Z3. On Linux, this would be via the package manager. On macOS, this might be via Homebrew (brew install z3). Users can use the environment variable Z3_LIBRARY_PATH_OVERRIDE to manually specify the library search path.
Enabling the bundled feature will use cmake to build and statically link Z3. Users wishing to use this feature with the release of Z3 of their choice must set Z3_SYS_BUNDLED_DIR_OVERRIDE to point to their own checkout of Z3. Alternatively, it will download the Z3 submodule and build from there.
Enabling the vcpkg feature will use vcpkg to build and install a copy of Z3 which is then used.
Enabling the gh-release feature will download a pre-compiled copy of Z3 from the GitHub release page for the current platform, if available.
- You may specify the version of Z3 to download via the Z3_SYS_Z3_VERSION environment variable.
- Note: Github throttles unauthenticated requests from the same IP fairly aggressively. If you are using the gh-release feature inside a CI pipeline (or if you cargo clean and rebuild a lot), you will likely experience random 403 responses downloading the z3 build artifacts. To mitigate this, generate a read-only Personal Access Token (https://github.com/settings/personal-access-tokens) and provide it to the READ_ONLY_GITHUB_TOKEN environment variable. The build.rs step will automatically use this token (if present) to prevent throttling.

Note: This crate requires a z3.h during build time.

By default, the crate will look for a z3.h in standard/system include paths. The Z3_SYS_Z3_HEADER environment variable can also be used to customize this.
Enabling thebundled feature will cause the bundled copy of z3.h to be used. The Z3_SYS_Z3_HEADER environment variable can also be used to customize this.
Enabling the vcpkg or gh-release feature will cause the copy of z3.h provided by that version to be used. In this case, there is no override via the environment variable.

Support and Maintenance

I am developing this library largely on my own so far. I am able to offer support and maintenance, but would very much appreciate donations via Patreon. I can also provide commercial support, so feel free to contact me.

Contribution