I get it now. Thanks! On Monday, September 3, 2018 at 8:08:04 PM UTC+5:30, Floh wrote: > > Generally yes, but the devil is in the details :) > > If you have a code base that compiles and runs both on Windows *and* > Linux, that's a pretty good starting point. Usually it's Windows-centric > code that requires a lot of work. > > The problem isn't only that emscripten doesn't have definitions for > platform-specific features, more important is that WebAssembly doesn't give > you access to 'native' platform features because it's running in the > browser sandbox for security reasons. > > On Monday, 3 September 2018 15:22:28 UTC+2, Varun Kumar wrote: >> >> Thank you Andre. Does this mean that if I have any code which is platform >> dependent, then I should first make it platform-independent and then only I >> can compile it to wasm? That is, I cannot compile any platform specific >> code to wasm because emscripten won't have definitions for those? >> >> On Monday, September 3, 2018 at 6:21:46 PM UTC+5:30, Floh wrote: >>> >>> You need the source code for the .dll/.so and compile it to wasm via >>> emscripten. Yes, wasm files are completely platform independent, but the >>> source code the wasm is compiled from also must be platform-independent. >>> Emscripten provides a number of portability wrapper which help a lot, but >>> if (for instance) the Windows DLL calls Win32 API functions you first need >>> to take care of those and translate them to APIs that are available on >>> emscripten. >>> >>> The porting section in the emscripten docs is a good starting point: >>> https://kripken.github.io/emscripten-site/docs/porting/index.html >>> >>> On Monday, 3 September 2018 14:16:29 UTC+2, Varun Kumar wrote: >>>> >>>> I have a C library(.so). There are two versions of it - one for Windows >>>> and another for Linux. What would be the right approach to convert it into >>>> WebAssembly? Also, is the .wasm file completely platform independent? >>>> >>>
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