Hi Fernando,

You may want to check

https://github.com/kripken/zee.js

which exposes high-level functions of zlib through a secondary WASM module.

Cheers!
Beuc

On 12/06/2020 19:50, 'Thomas Lively' via emscripten-discuss wrote:
> WebAssembly in the browser has no notion of processes (or shells), so
> `system` will not work. Whether you compile xz to wasm or use the npm
> package, you will probably still have to modify the original code to
> call out to some JS that invokes xz rather than using `system`.
>
> On Fri, Jun 12, 2020 at 7:48 AM Fernando Bitti Loureiro
> <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>
>
>     Let me resort again to the support of this list.
>
>     I successfully compiled a tool to wasm just to find out it uses
>     the C system command:
>     https://linux.die.net/man/3/system
>     ... to call another program, https://github.com/xz-mirror/xz.
>
>     The wasm program still works when I run the program through node
>     on Linux CLI, but it obviously fails when I run it on a browser,
>     with the error on the subject of this message:
>     "failed to call xz, please confirm that xz is installed in your
>     system"
>     (this is an error message created by the tool itself, not Emscripten)
>
>     Researching this specific topic is being really difficult. I tried
>     to find a single example of a C program with a system call being
>     compiled to wasm and running on a browser.
>     But, because the words "system" and "shell" mean different things
>     and are used in a variety of contexts, I get a lot of unrelated
>     search results, hence I'm resorting to this discussion list.
>
>     I thought about the following possible solutions:
>     1. touch the original C code to remove the system shell calls to
>     the xz tool and handle the compression on JS
>     via https://www.npmjs.com/package/xz
>     2. compile the xz tool to wasm and (somehow) make calls between
>     the two wasm functions.
>     (is this possible)?
>
>     Any guidance is welcome.
>
>     Thank you so much,
>
>     Fernando
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