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Installing WABT

Explore the process of installing WABT for WebAssembly development. Understand how to clone the repository, set up the build environment using CMake, and build binaries on different operating systems. Learn about each WABT tool's function, helping you efficiently convert and analyze WebAssembly formats.

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In order to install WABT, first clone the repository from GitHub:

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git clone --recursive https://github.com/WebAssembly/wabt

Note: We use the --recursive flag here as it ensures that, after the clone is created, all submodules within the repository (such as test-suite) are initialized.

Go into the cloned repository, create a folder named build, and then go inside the build folder. This is where we’ll generate the binaries:

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cd wabt
mkdir build
cd build

Note: You’ll also need to install CMake. Refer to this link for more instructions.

To build the binary with CMake, we first need to generate the build system. We specify the source to the cmake command. CMake will then build trees and generate a build system for the specified source, using the CMakeLists.txt file. ... ...