Re: [Firebird-devel] Build for WASM
On 2/24/22 03:45, Adriano dos Santos Fernandes wrote: On 23/02/2022 06:40, Jiří Činčura wrote: You mean, running in the browser? Yes. Or any other place where WASM is/will be supported. I had a (very) brief look at it once. Main difficulties should be: - Memory manager - no mmap - Shared libraries - File I/O - Lock manager All these points should have a workaround for a limited environment, but one must work on them - improving abstractions and much testing and fixes, I suppose. I believe it should be a long work. It would have a good usage: allow usage of Firebird directly in web pages, running in the client. That would be awesome for users wanting to try Firebird. That port promises to be much more problematic than Android one. Certainly, if someone voluteers for that job it will be good, but I doubt we should spend project resources on it. Firebird-Devel mailing list, web interface at https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/firebird-devel
Re: [Firebird-devel] Build for WASM
On 23/02/2022 06:40, Jiří Činčura wrote: >> You mean, running in the browser? > > Yes. Or any other place where WASM is/will be supported. > I had a (very) brief look at it once. Main difficulties should be: - Memory manager - no mmap - Shared libraries - File I/O - Lock manager All these points should have a workaround for a limited environment, but one must work on them - improving abstractions and much testing and fixes, I suppose. I believe it should be a long work. It would have a good usage: allow usage of Firebird directly in web pages, running in the client. That would be awesome for users wanting to try Firebird. Adriano Firebird-Devel mailing list, web interface at https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/firebird-devel
Re: [Firebird-devel] Build for WASM
Also discussion on HackerNews https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30356020 On Wed, Feb 23, 2022 at 5:21 PM marius adrian popa wrote: > There are some patches to run Libreoffice on WASM > https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Development/WASM > > Still experimental but somehow works in the browser > https://www.theregister.com/2022/02/19/webassembly_port_libreoffice/ > > On Wed, Feb 23, 2022 at 11:41 AM Jiří Činčura wrote: > >> > You mean, running in the browser? >> >> Yes. Or any other place where WASM is/will be supported. >> >> -- >> Mgr. Jiří Činčura >> https://www.tabsoverspaces.com/ >> >> >> >> Firebird-Devel mailing list, web interface at >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/firebird-devel >> > Firebird-Devel mailing list, web interface at https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/firebird-devel
Re: [Firebird-devel] Build for WASM
There are some patches to run Libreoffice on WASM https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Development/WASM Still experimental but somehow works in the browser https://www.theregister.com/2022/02/19/webassembly_port_libreoffice/ On Wed, Feb 23, 2022 at 11:41 AM Jiří Činčura wrote: > > You mean, running in the browser? > > Yes. Or any other place where WASM is/will be supported. > > -- > Mgr. Jiří Činčura > https://www.tabsoverspaces.com/ > > > > Firebird-Devel mailing list, web interface at > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/firebird-devel > Firebird-Devel mailing list, web interface at https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/firebird-devel
Re: [Firebird-devel] Build for WASM
> You mean, running in the browser? Yes. Or any other place where WASM is/will be supported. -- Mgr. Jiří Činčura https://www.tabsoverspaces.com/ Firebird-Devel mailing list, web interface at https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/firebird-devel
Re: [Firebird-devel] Build for WASM
Em qua., 23 de fev. de 2022 04:51, Jiří Činčura escreveu: > Hi *, > > Was there ever a discussion about providing Firebird build for WASM? I > mean, having Firebird Embedded in WASM would be sick. > You mean, running in the browser? Adriano Firebird-Devel mailing list, web interface at https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/firebird-devel
[Firebird-devel] Build for WASM
Hi *, Was there ever a discussion about providing Firebird build for WASM? I mean, having Firebird Embedded in WASM would be sick. -- Mgr. Jiří Činčura https://www.tabsoverspaces.com/ Firebird-Devel mailing list, web interface at https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/firebird-devel
