Producing Wasm executables

Since we've tested and built our contract, we're still operating under the assumption that everything works. However, to test our dApp on Archway, we'll need to build it as a wasm executable, then upload and instantiate it on chain.

For that, you'll need the wasm32-unknown-unknown target installed in your toolchain as well. You can add it using:

rustup target add wasm32-unknown-unknown

There are 2 types of wasm binaries that can be produced by the Developer CLI. Let's call them "default" wasm and "cosmwasm" wasm.

Default Wasm executables

This is a regular wasm binary. It's the same as you'd get by running the Rust native command cargo wasm.

Default wasm executables can be produced by the developer CLI using the command:

archway deploy --dry-run

Example output:

Building wasm executable...
  Compiling proc-macro2 v1.0.28  Compiling unicode-xid v0.2.2  # And so on until ...  Compiling my-project v0.1.0 (/home/my-system-path/my-project)    Finished release [optimized] target(s) in 27.78s

Note: use --dry-run before deploying to gauge whether the deployment will succeed. This is useful because of speed, as running archway deploy --dry-run is a lot faster.

CosmWasm Wasm executables

CosmWasm wasm executables are optimized using the cosmwasm/rust-optimizer which produces a smaller executable size than cargo wasm.

Think of it like building C++ executables with UPX, as cosmwasm/rust-optimizer also compresses the binary to produce smaller build outputs.

Producing CosmWasm wasm executables is part of the deploy process and can be accessed by running the deploy command without the --dry-run flag.

note

The Developer CLI currently only supports the Docker version of cosmwasm/rust-optimizer. The deploy process will fail and exit if Docker has not been started (Support for native cosmwasm/rust-optimizer binaries coming soon).