Contract deployment doesn't support libraries

[boukestam]

While trying to deploy a smart contract we got the following error The data field must be HEX encoded data.
After a lot of debugging I found out that this is caused because the isHex function in utils.js only supports characters 0-9 and a-f.

But when using a linked library solidity includes this in the outputted JSON

"linkReferences": {
	"AllianceBlock/PercentageCalculator.sol": {
		"PercentageCalculator": [
			{
				"length": 20,
				"start": 13575
			}
		]
	}
}

And adds dollar signs and underscores in the bytecode to indicate the location of the library

This is according to the solidity github found here ethereum/solidity#635

How can we deploy this contract? We couldn't find any way to change the compiler settings to not include these characters

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[sensati0n]

I've came accross a similar issue.

My steps:

1. Compiling the Library.
2. Deploying the Library.
3. Compiling the Contract.
4. Linking the Library with the Contract.
5. Deploying the Contract. *ERROR: The data field must be HEX encoded data.

As @boukestam mentioned, this is because of 'foreign' characters in the bytecode.

Currently, I am unable to deploy my contract containing a link to my library...

Is there any update to this issue?

UPDATE:

Reading this issue it seems like this is still part of the hashed Library-Name, indicating that the linking did not work as expected.

[spacesailor24]

Hi there, wanting to know if this is still an issue for you?

If so, could provide a test repository for this?

[visopsys]

I also have this issue when using with a library. If I move a function from library to inner contract, then it compiles successfully.

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