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# WASI Libc
WASI Libc is a libc for WebAssembly programs built on top of WASI system calls.
It provides a wide array of POSIX-compatible C APIs, including support for
standard I/O, file I/O, filesystem manipulation, memory management, time, string,
environment variables, program startup, and many other APIs.
WASI Libc is sufficiently stable and usable for many purposes, as most of the
POSIX-compatible APIs are stable, though it is continuing to evolve to better
align with wasm and WASI. For example, pthread support is still a work in
progress.
## Usage
The easiest way to get started with this is to use [wasi-sdk], which includes a
build of WASI Libc in its sysroot.
## Building from source
To build a WASI sysroot from source, obtain a WebAssembly-supporting C compiler
(currently this is only clang 10+, though we'd like to support other compilers as well),
and then run:
```sh
make CC=/path/to/clang/with/wasm/support \
AR=/path/to/llvm-ar \
NM=/path/to/llvm-nm
```
This makes a directory called "sysroot", by default. See the top of the Makefile
for customization options.
To use the sysroot, use the `--sysroot=` option:
```sh
/path/to/wasm/supporting/c/compiler --sysroot=/path/to/the/newly/built/sysroot ...
```
to run the compiler using the newly built sysroot.
Note that Clang packages typically don't include cross-compiled builds of
compiler-rt, libcxx, or libcxxabi, for `libclang_rt.builtins-wasm32.a`, libc++.a,
or libc++abi.a, respectively, so they may not be usable without
extra setup. This is one of the things [wasi-sdk] simplifies, as it includes
cross-compiled builds of compiler-rt, libc++.a, and libc++abi.a.
## Arch Linux AUR package
For Arch Linux users, there's an unofficial AUR package tracking this git repo that can be installed under the name [wasi-libc-git].
[wasi-sdk]: https://github.com/WebAssembly/wasi-sdk
[wasi-libc-git]: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/wasi-libc-git/
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