Linked library in ethers 6

[igorroman777]

how to deploey the library in contract.
The old solution in ether 5 does not work:
const marketplaceFactory = new ethers.ContractFactory( marketplaceJson.abi, marketplaceJson.bytecode, deployer, { libraries: { MarketItemLib: marketItemLibAddress } } );

[ricmoo]

Are you sure that is an Ethers class? It looks like it might be a hardhat class (they change a few of the APIs on the ethers namespace.

An ethers ContractFactory only accepts 3 parameters. It looks like maybe Hardhat accepts a 4th parameter for the Solidity compiler and linker. Or maybe those are used as the constructor arguments?

In general for ethers (v5 and v6) you use something like factory = new ContractFactory(abi, bytecode, signer); contract = await factory.deploy().

[igorroman777]

Hi, yes it was hardhat class. I.e. ethers 6 does not support library from solidity?

await contract.waitForDeployment();
...
const nftMarketplaceFactory = new ethers.ContractFactory(
marketplaceJson.abi,
linkedBytecode,
signer
);

[anilhelvaci]

Hello @ricmoo ,

What would be the native ethers.js way to link an external library to a contract then? Do we have to replace the placeholder strings in the contract bytecode with the library's bytecode manually?