Currently not, JS libraries are just noticed when doing the final build
from bitcode to JS. We would need to add quite a bit of metadata tracking
to support anything else, handle linking of JS libraries, etc. How they
work is we do all the normal C linking stuff, then when all that is done,
check remaining missing symbols in the JS libraries - a very simple model,
basically.

- Alon


On Thu, Sep 11, 2014 at 4:11 PM, Nicholas Wilson <
[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> We are building a rather large project with emscripten using cmake. It's
> all pretty good, but I have one niggle about the build process. Our
> application is split up into libraries with about thirty to fifty object
> files each, and some of the low-level ones are OS wrappers, providing an
> abstraction of Windows/Unix/Mac behaviour, and now we've added emscripten
> as an OS (our AppLoop class for example needs its own AppLoopImpl for
> emscripten, to sit alongside the implementations using select() on Unix,
> CFRunLoop on Mac, and MsgWaitForMultipleObjects on Win).
>
> Unfortunately, it doesn't seem to be possible to add JS libraries to a
> ".a" archive, unless I'm invoking it incorrectly? We have to pass
> "--js-library" for each one to the linker at the end, but it's awkward
> propagating all the filenames from the cmake subprojects to the final link
> line.
>
> Would it be possible for emar to just stuff the JS files in to our static
> libraries alongside the bitcode objects? The linker can then pull them out
> at the other end of the process and add them to its list of additional
> libraries. The emar wrapper is just python, easy to modify without having
> to delve into the internals of anything, so it can do anything it likes to
> pretend that .js files are just pre-compiled objects of a special form that
> can indeed be added to an archive. We could use ".pre.js" and ".post.js" as
> the extensions to indicate preamble and postable code.
>
> That would also greatly simply the dependency tracking in the current
> cmake macros emscripten supplies (em_link_js_library), which uses some odd
> hacks to get incremental builds to work.
>
> This is just an idea; I haven't quite thought whether or not it would work.
>
> Nick
>
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