# Installing

To use ezkl in Python, just pip install ezkl. You will generally also need onnx installed if you are exporting models, and Pytorch, Tensorflow, or similar if you are creating models.

ezkl uses your system solc Solidity compiler, so you may need to tweak it using svm-rs or solc-select, particularly if you are targeting a specific hardfork.

To use the cli, download a release binary from GitHub. If you want the latest build, you can also install from source.

Ezkl is built in rust. First install rust, then download the repo and enter the directory

git clone git@github.com:zkonduit/ezkl.git
cd ezkl

After which you may build and install the library

cargo install --force --path .

If you want to build manually with cargo build, be sure to use the release flag as the debug build will result in slow proofs

cargo build --release --bin ezkl

You can always check the options available for a command by typing the command with --help. For example, ezkl table will show you the options available for the table command. This will provide you with the most up-to-date information on a given command's usage and the cli spec.

# list all available commands
ezkl --help

Note: To render your model circuits, you'll need to compile ezkl with the render feature (cargo build --features render --bin ezkl). This enables the render-circuit command which can create .png representations of the compiled circuits. You'll also need to install the libexpat1-dev and libfreetype6-dev libraries on Debian systems (there are equivalents for MacOS as well).

Use cargo doc --open to compile and open the Rust documentation for ezkl in your default browser.