Short term fix/wrokaround is here:
https://github.com/emscripten-core/emscripten/pull/16149

On Sat, Jan 29, 2022 at 11:32 AM Sam Clegg <[email protected]> wrote:

> The undefined symbol error you are seeing here is coming from the
> post-linking phase.  The way EM_JS works is that the function is that
> function `foo` declared as external using
> `__attribute__((import_name("foo")))` and the data symbol `__em_js_foo` is
> defined in the data section along with `__attribute__((used,
> visibility("default")))`.    For more details on this see
> https://github.com/emscripten-core/emscripten/blob/main/system/include/emscripten/em_js.h#L23-L49
> .
>
> I believe the problem you are seeing stems from the different meaning of
> `__attribute__((used))` under emscripten compared to with triples.    The
> problem stems from the fact that we use `__attribute__((used))` to
> implement the EMSCRIPTEN_KEEPALIVE macro, which is defined to mean "keep
> this symbol alive *and* export it to JS under its symbol name".
>
> If you use wasm-objdump to look at an object file containing EM_JS symbols
> you will see them marked as both "no_strip" and "exported".  For example:
>
> ```
>   - 38: D <__em_js__noarg> segment=0 offset=0 size=36 [ exported no_strip
> binding=global vis=default ]
>   - 39: D <__em_js__noarg_int> segment=0 offset=36 size=55 [ exported
> no_strip binding=global vis=default ]
>   - 40: D <__em_js__noarg_double> segment=0 offset=91 size=61 [ exported
> no_strip binding=global vis=default ]
>   - 41: D <__em_js__intarg> segment=0 offset=152 size=41 [ exported
> no_strip binding=global vis=default ]
> ```
>
> If you compile the same source using a non-emscripten triple you will see
> them only marked as `no_strip` which is a more traditional meaning of the
> `used` attribute which simply tells the linker to keep them around in the
> binary, not to export them.   Here is where the hack/difference is:
> https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/blob/333f5019300c6e56782374627e64da0b62ffa3bc/llvm/lib/MC/WasmObjectWriter.cpp#L1773-L1777
>
> There are two ways we can solve this issue I believe.
>
> 1. Long term solution: Stop abusing `__attribute__((used))`, and thus
> remove this special handling in emscripten.  We should really have a
> separate attribute to mark a symbol as exported.  I've been trying to get
> this done for while but its stalled.  See https://reviews.llvm.org/D76547
> 2. Short term solution: Use the more explicit (but not
> EMSCIRPTEN_KEEPALIVE-compatible), 'export-name' attribute in em_js.h. I
> think this should "just work".
>
> cheers,
> sam
>
>
> On Sat, Jan 29, 2022 at 10:22 AM Floh <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Spot on Alon :)
>>
>> It works if I hardwire just the C library (with the EM_JS functions) to
>> the wasm32-emscripten triple.
>>
>> The Zig code needs to be compiled either with wasm32-wasi or
>> wasm32-freestanding, when using wasm32-emscripten, parts of the Zig stdlib
>> won't compile.
>>
>> Also, when I tried to use wasm32-freestanding with the C code, then
>> wasm-ld complained about some missing stack-check functions (don't have the
>> exact symbol at hand currently).
>>
>> ...I think I have enough to build a little 'proof-of-concept', even
>> though it's a bit hacky :)
>>
>> Thanks!
>> -Floh.
>> On Saturday, 29 January 2022 at 18:58:53 UTC+1 [email protected] wrote:
>>
>>> Sam can confirm, but I would guess perhaps the emscripten triple is
>>> necessary. That is, clang and/or wasm-ld might do something for EM_JS code
>>> but only in emscripten mode.
>>>
>>> If we can confirm that then we should definitely get a bug filed on Zig
>>> - hopefully it would be easy to add support for the emscripten triple there
>>> and open up a bunch of use cases...
>>>
>>> On Sat, Jan 29, 2022 at 9:12 AM Floh <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>
>>>> I'm currently tinkering with bringing one of my toy Zig projects to the
>>>> web via
>>>> Alon's nice gist here which uses emcc only for the linker step:
>>>>
>>>> https://gist.github.com/kripken/58c0e640227fe5bac9e7b30100a2a1d3
>>>>
>>>> ...and it *nearly* works except for code that uses EM_JS() macros.
>>>>
>>>> The project (https://github.com/floooh/pacman.zig) consists of some C
>>>> code (my cross-platform 'sokol headers') which uses EM_JS() quite
>>>> extensively (very handy for STB-style single-file libraries), and at the
>>>> top, the "game code" is written in Zig.
>>>>
>>>> I'm compiling all code with Zig with the wasm32-wasi target
>>>> (wasm32-emscripten exists, but currently doesn't seem to be supported by
>>>> the Zig compiler), and then use emcc for linking.
>>>>
>>>> Long story short, it works except for the one problem that emcc cannot
>>>> resolve any functions which have been defined with EM_JS(). If I compile
>>>> the same library with emcc instead of Zig it works.
>>>>
>>>> So my question is: does emcc also do some "EM_JS() magic" when
>>>> compiling the source code which contains EM_JS macros? Maybe I'm missing
>>>> some Clang command line options which emcc inserts?
>>>>
>>>> The errors look like this:
>>>>
>>>> error: undefined symbol: sapp_js_add_clipboard_listener (referenced by
>>>> top-level compiled C/C++ code)
>>>>
>>>> Followed by:
>>>>
>>>> warning: _sapp_js_add_clipboard_listener may need to be added to
>>>> EXPORTED_FUNCTIONS if it arrives from a system library
>>>> ...there's also a single warning about malloc:
>>>>
>>>> ...if I compile with "-s ERROR_ON_UNDEFINED_SYMBOLS=0", then the code
>>>> breaks at runtime failing to resolve those EM_JS() functions, e.g.:
>>>>
>>>> "missing function: sapp_js_pointer_init"
>>>>
>>>> Compiling the same static link library with emcc, it magically works.
>>>>
>>>> If I look at both libraries with nm I don't see much of a difference,
>>>> e.g. here's the relevant parts from the emcc-compiled library, every EM_JS
>>>> symbol has an "D __em_js..." entry, and a matching "U sapp_js..." entry,
>>>> e.g.:
>>>>
>>>> 0000185f D __em_js__sapp_js_add_beforeunload_listener
>>>> ...
>>>> U sapp_js_add_beforeunload_listener
>>>> ...
>>>>
>>>> The Zig-compiled library has the same entries:
>>>>
>>>> 00001841 D __em_js__sapp_js_add_beforeunload_listener
>>>> ...
>>>> U sapp_js_add_beforeunload_listener
>>>> ...
>>>>
>>>> ...yet one library (the zig-compiled) produces linker errors for those
>>>> symbols, and the other (emcc-compiled) works.
>>>>
>>>> Clearly I'm missing something. I was expecting that all the EM_JS()
>>>> magic is in the linker (by extracting the __em_js_* Javascript source code
>>>> strings, and then "somehow" providing the C function import). Any ideas
>>>> what I'm missing?
>>>>
>>>> Thanks!
>>>> -Floh.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
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