wickra-compile 0.2.0

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Compile a strategy spec into a standalone deployable: a WASM module, a self-contained binary, or a no_std artifact for microcontrollers. Write once as data, deploy anywhere.

▶ Live demos: the backtester compiled to WebAssembly, an equity curve building bar by bar — backtest-live.wickra.org; one StrategySpec side by side in Python, Rust, JS and Go — playground.wickra.org; all 514 indicators of the core over a real Binance feed — live.wickra.org. Zero backend, all of them.

Part of the Wickra ecosystem: the same data-driven core and ten-language binding surface also power wickra-exchange, wickra-backtest, wickra-terminal and 20 more — see the full list. same StrategySpec that wickra-backtest runs and emits a self-contained project that embeds the spec and calls the Wickra engine — no interpreter, no runtime spec parsing.

Wickra Compile is the output side of strategy authoring: instead of wrestling a Pine-like input language, you write your strategy as a StrategySpec (data), and the compiler generates a standalone Rust project that embeds it verbatim and targets WASM, a native binary, or bare metal. The generated manifest — the list of files with their hashes plus the canonical spec hash — is byte-identical across all ten language bindings and reproducible across runs.

# Print the deterministic manifest for a strategy spec — no toolchain needed.
cargo run -p wickra-compile -- --spec golden/specs/sma_cross.json --manifest

# Generate the project without building it, then inspect it.
cargo run -p wickra-compile -- --spec golden/specs/sma_cross.json --dry-run --out ./out

Status

0.2.0 — the current release. The codegen core, the reference CLI, the ten-language binding surface, the golden corpus and the full CI matrix are in place.

Documentation

• ARCHITECTURE.md — the crates and the codegen pipeline.
• COMPILESPEC.md — the input schema.
• TARGETS.md — WASM / binary / no_std and the MCU allowlist.
• DETERMINISM.md — why the manifest is reproducible.
• TEMPLATES.md — codegen and injection safety.
• Cookbook.md — practical recipes.

How it works

A CompileSpec names a StrategySpec, a target (wasm / binary / no_std), an optimisation level and optional embedded data. The codegen core:

1. validates the spec (the strategy round-trips as a wickra_backtest::StrategySpec; the crate name and MCU triple are checked against an allowlist);
2. renders a generated Rust project from embedded templates (the spec is embedded as data, never run through the template engine);
3. emits a deterministic manifest — every file's SHA-256 and length, the canonical spec hash, and the project hash — in stable path order;
4. optionally invokes cargo (argv, never a shell) to build the artifact.

Determinism

The manifest is the golden moat: BTreeMap everywhere in the output path, stable path-sorted file lists, no RNG, no timestamps, canonical spec serialisation before hashing. The same CompileSpec + target produces a byte-identical manifest on every run and in every language binding. (The compiled binary bytes are only reproducible with a reproducible-build toolchain — that is best-effort and separate from the manifest guarantee.)

Quickstart

# Print the deterministic manifest for a strategy spec — no toolchain needed.
wickra-compile --spec golden/specs/sma_cross.json --manifest

# Generate the project without building it, then inspect it.
wickra-compile --spec golden/specs/sma_cross.json --dry-run --out ./out

# Retarget the same spec without editing it.
wickra-compile --spec golden/specs/sma_cross.json --target wasm --opt size

Use in any language

The same handle + command_json + version surface ships for Rust, Python, Node.js, WASM, and — over a C ABI hub — C, C++, C#, Go, Java and R. Each binding passes the command string through verbatim, so the manifest they return is identical.

import json
from wickra_compile import Compiler

spec = open("golden/specs/sma_cross.json").read()
out = json.loads(Compiler().command(f'{{"cmd":"compile","dry_run":true,"spec":{spec}}}'))
print(out["manifest"]["project_hash"])  # identical in every binding

See examples/ for the same program in all ten languages.

Project layout

crates/compile-core   the library: spec, canonical JSON, codegen, manifest
crates/compile-cli    the wickra-compile CLI
crates/compile-bench  criterion micro-benchmarks
bindings/*            ten language surfaces (c, python, node, wasm, csharp, go, java, r)
golden/               specs + blessed manifests (the cross-language corpus)
examples/             one runnable example per language
docs/                 architecture, spec, targets, determinism, templates, cookbook

Building everything from source

cargo build --workspace
cargo test  --workspace --all-features
cargo clippy --workspace --all-targets --all-features -- -D warnings
cargo run -p wickra-compile -- --spec golden/specs/sma_cross.json --manifest

Each binding builds from its own directory — see the per-binding READMEs under bindings/. The operating-mode test builds the generated no_std project for real, so rustup target add thumbv7em-none-eabihf before cargo test.

Testing

Run the suites with the commands in Building everything from source.

• wickra-compile-core — unit tests per template and target, canonical determinism (a spec in any key order hashes the same), property tests over specs and the command envelope, and the operating-mode check: the manifest a dry run describes is the manifest a real build builds (the no_std project, which has no dependencies and compiles in seconds). The golden fixtures in golden/ are the anchor: every spec must produce the same manifest bytes here as in every binding.
• Every binding asserts the same golden manifest and the same operating-mode equivalence (the WASM build, which carries no toolchain, checks key-order independence instead of a real build). That is the whole cross-language claim, so it is checked the same way in each one rather than approximated per language: Python with pytest (and a plain runner on 3.9), Node with node --test, WASM through the nodejs build, C and C++ through ctest, C# with dotnet test, Go with go test, Java with JUnit, and R with the shipped tests/smoke.R plus the repository's run_tests.R.
• Examples — every example under examples/ runs in CI and is held to the version and the project_hash it prints.
• Real builds — the nightly build-targets job cross-compiles a generated project per target family (wasm32, thumbv7em) with the CLI.
• Fuzz — fuzz/ holds libFuzzer targets over spec and target parsing, the canonical hash and the codegen; CI runs each for a short smoke.

Requirements

• Rust 1.86+ — the workspace MSRV; the Node binding needs Rust 1.88. Building a generated artifact additionally needs its target toolchain (wasm32-unknown-unknown for WASM, a thumbv* target for no_std).
• Python 3.9+ — the Python binding.
• Node 22+ — the Node binding.
• Go 1.23+ — the Go binding.
• Java 22+ — the Java binding.
• R 4.1+ — the R package.
• .NET 8+ — the C# binding.
• A C11 / C++17 compiler with CMake 3.15+ for the C and C++ examples.

See each bindings/<lang>/README.md for the per-language build and install.

Benchmarks

Codegen is pure data templating and hashing — tens of microseconds, no compilation. See BENCHMARKS.md; reproduce with cargo bench -p compile-bench.

Ecosystem

Part of the Wickra family — each one a data-driven core with a CLI and the same ten-language binding surface:

• wickra — main library (Rust core + Python / Node.js / WASM bindings + a C ABI for C / C++ / C# / Go / Java / R)
• wickra-playground — a polyglot strategy playground: one StrategySpec live side by side in Python, Rust, JS and Go, entirely in the browser
• wickra-exchange — unified market-data + execution across ten crypto exchanges
• wickra-backtest — event-driven backtester over the Wickra core
• wickra-terminal — the trading terminal: a TUI and a browser renderer over the stack
• wickra-screener — parallel multi-symbol screening over 514 streaming indicators
• wickra-xray — market-microstructure explorer: footprint, order-book heatmap, liquidation map, funding/OI divergence
• wickra-copilot — local market copilot grounded in real order-book, liquidation and funding microstructure
• wickra-shazam — match an asset's current microstructure fingerprint against its entire history
• wickra-benchmark — reproducible, golden-verified benchmark suite — recompute any (strategy, dataset, report) in ten languages and confirm it byte-for-byte
• wickra-strategy-ci — Jest for trading strategies: golden-pin the report, catch regressions in CI, property-test against fuzzed data
• wickra-verify — confirm or refute a claimed backtest report against its strategy and data, in ten languages
• wickra-proof — Proof-of-Backtest: deterministic (spec, data) → report + blake3 hash, recomputable byte-for-byte in ten languages
• wickra-zk — prove a backtest zero-knowledge — on-chain-verifiable performance without revealing the data or the strategy
• wickra-impact — the backtester that knows you would have moved the market: agent-based fills on the real historical L2 order book
• wickra-darwin — evolutionary strategy search at millions of backtests per second, mutating and crossing JSON specs across the 514-indicator space
• wickra-gym — a Gymnasium-compatible, microstructure-aware backtest environment with O(1) steps for deterministic RL rollouts
• wickra-feature-store — OHLCV and microstructure streams into ML-ready feature matrices over 514 O(1) streaming indicators
• wickra-genome — a vector database of the whole market: every asset a 514-dim live vector, for similarity search, clustering and anomaly detection
• wickra-timemachine — scrub the whole market like a video — every symbol, full order book, rewound to any moment via deterministic re-fold
• wickra-synth — deterministic synthetic market microstructure: OHLCV, order book, trades and funding from a single seed
• wickra-radar — a liquidation-cascade early-warning radar over 514 streaming indicators
• wickra-embed — allocation-free, no_std streaming indicators for bare-metal and HFT, byte-for-byte identical to the core
• wickra-pico — the O(1) indicator core running bare-metal on a $5 Raspberry Pi Pico — the LED blinks on the EMA cross

Docs at docs.wickra.org; the marketing site and in-browser demo at wickra.org.

Contributing

See CONTRIBUTING.md.

Security

See SECURITY.md and THREAT_MODEL.md. The compiler generates code and can invoke cargo on it — run it only on trusted specs.

License

Licensed under either of

• Apache License, Version 2.0 (LICENSE-APACHE or http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0)
• MIT license (LICENSE-MIT or http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT)

at your option. Use it, fork it, modify it, redistribute it — commercially or not — file issues, send pull requests; all welcome.

Contribution

Unless you explicitly state otherwise, any contribution intentionally submitted for inclusion in the work by you, as defined in the Apache-2.0 license, shall be dual licensed as above, without any additional terms or conditions.

Disclaimer

Wickra Compile is a code-generation tool, provided "as is" without warranty of any kind. It generates projects and can invoke cargo to build them — run it only on specs you trust. Nothing here is financial advice; compiled strategies are your responsibility, and trading carries risk of loss.

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