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Practical WebAssembly
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emsdk provides an easy way to install, manage, and switch versions of the Emscripten toolchain. emsdk takes care of setting up the environment, tools, and SDK required for compiling C/C++ to LLVM IR and then to JavaScript in the form of asm.js or the WebAssembly binary.
Let's install Emscripten and start hacking:
emsdk folder:$ git clone https://github.com/emscripten-core/emsdk $ cd emsdk
For *nix users, use the following:
$ ./emsdk install latest
For Windows users, use the following:
$ emsdk install latest
Note
The preceding command might take a while to run; it will build and set up the entire toolchain.
Next, we will activate the latest emsdk. The activation updates the local shell with the necessary environment references and makes the latest SDK active for the user in the current shell. It writes the...