In this tutorial I will show you how to setup the development environment for compiling C programs to WASM and executing the WASM module using wasmtime runtime.
Download Clang, a C/C++ Compiler.
Upstream Clang and LLVM (from 9.0 onwards) can compile for WASI out of the box, and WebAssembly support is included in them by default.
Download and install clang :
sudo apt install clang
when installation is complete, run this command to verify your installation.
clang --version
Result:
clang version 10.0.0-4ubuntu1
Target: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu
Thread model: posix
InstalledDir: /usr/bin
Next, download the WASI-sdk.The wasi-sdk provides a clang which is configured to target WASI and use the WASI sysroot by default if you put the extracted tree into /, so we can compile our program like:
opt/wasi-sdk/share/sysroot/bin/clang demo.c -o demo.wasm
If you would want to extract it elsewhere, you can specify the sysroot directory like this:
~/wasi-sdk-12.0/bin/clang demo.c --sysroot <path to sysroot> -o demo.wasm
If you're using the wasi-sdk, the sysroot directory is located in opt/wasi-sdk/share/sysroot/ on Linux and Mac.
This is just regular clang, configured to use a WebAssembly target and sysroot. The output name specified with the "-o" flag can be anything you want, and does not need to contain the .wasm extension. In fact, the output of clang here is a standard WebAssembly module:
Install Runtime environment:
You could use either wasmtime or wasmer or other runtime environments
Install WASMTIME
The WASMTIME is a wasm runtime environment for running WebAssembly modules. The easiest way to install the wasmtime CLI tool is through this installation script. Linux and macOS users can execute the following:
curl https://wasmtime.dev/install.sh -sSf | bash
This will download a precompiled version of wasmtime
You can confirm your installation works by executing:
wasmtime -V
which result in:
wasmtime 0.12.0
To run a wasm with wasmtime
wasmtime <filename>.wasm
OR Install WASMER
WASMER is an open-source runtime for executing WebAssembly on the Server. To install it run the following command on your terminal
curl https://get.wasmer.io -sSfL | sh
To verify your installation:
wasmer --version
result:
wasmer 2.0.0
To run a wasm with wasmer
wasmer run <filename>.wasm
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