README.md

Native to Anchor

Native To Anchor(nta) is a CLI tool that helps you generate Anchor IDLs and clients for native Solana programs.

Installation

• Install with cargo:

cargo install native-to-anchor

or

• Build from source:

git clone https://github.com/acheroncrypto/native-to-anchor.git
cd native-to-anchor/generator
cargo build --release

See the available commands with:

native-to-anchor

NOTE: You can see the optional arguments for any command with:

native-to-anchor <COMMAND_NAME> --help

Examples will assume you've installed with cargo. If you've built from source, you can follow the examples by running the binary or adding an alias to the binary accordingly.

Generation

There is an example tutorial in example directory. You can also check out client directory to see the generated packages and it's tests.

Generate IDL

You can easily create an Anchor IDL from a Solana program with:

native-to-anchor idl <PATH_TO_SOLANA_PROGRAM>

Generate package

Having the IDL is nice but IDL alone will not allow program interactions. Luckily this tool will create a package that you can import to your project and interact with native Solana programs like you would with Anchor programs.

native-to-anchor package <PATH_TO_SOLANA_PROGRAM>

NOTE: In the case of an unsupported or an unknown type(like in the case of type being defined outside of the program crate), serialization/deserialization differences, or custom account trait implementations the generated code might not be correct. Some of the SPL programs have these problems and you can check out client/packages to see how it was handled. There are a lot of things that could go wrong in this process, it wouldn't be wise trying to list all of them.

Supported de/serializers

• Borsh

License

Licensed under MIT.