Thank you for the guidance, Beuc and Thomas!

On Friday, 12 June 2020 20:07:46 UTC+2, Beuc wrote:
>
> 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] <javascript:>> 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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