Installing dependencies

The following dependencies are only required for compiling to WASM.

• wasmer
• Clang / LLVM version 13 or later (NB: On macOS the preinstalled clang does not support the wasm target so use brew install llvm instead for example)
• wasi-sdk
• wasm-ld - the LLVM linker for WASM (NB: On linux you may need to install the lld package, on macOS this is installed as part of llvm).

To install wasi-sdk you need to download libclang_rt and wasi-sysroot precompiled archives from the wasi-sdk release page and:

1. Extract the libclang_rt.builtins-wasm32-wasi-*.tar.gz archive in the clang installation root (for example /usr/lib/clang/13 on Ubuntu or `brew --prefix llvm` on macos).

   For example on macos with homebrew clang:

   cd `brew --prefix llvm`
   curl https://github.com/WebAssembly/wasi-sdk/releases/download/wasi-sdk-15/libclang_rt.builtins-wasm32-wasi-15.0.tar.gz -OL
   tar xf libclang_rt.builtins-wasm32-wasi-15.0.tar.gz
   

2. Extract the wasi-sysroot-*.tar.gz archive on your local system and set WASI_SYSROOT_PATH to its path.

   For example:

   cd ~
   curl https://github.com/WebAssembly/wasi-sdk/releases/download/wasi-sdk-15/wasi-sysroot-15.0.tar.gz -OL
   tar xf wasi-sysroot-15.0.tar.gz
   export WASI_SYSROOT_PATH=~/wasi-sysroot