Another question regarding tests for projects targ...

# webassembly

[Alexey Zolotarev]

Another question regarding tests for projects targeting Wasm WASI. With wasmWasiTest it is not possible to debug the tests in Idea. Suppose I have some utility code that doesn't rely on any Wasm-related stuff, are there any options to debug tests for such code without running them in a Wasm runtime?

[Artem Kobzar]

Right now (as far as I see), not many runtimes outside of the browser support debugging (I've made it work only for WAMR with Kotlin/Wasm), so it is not possible to integrate the debugging process inside the IDE.
If you have code that is not related to Wasm at all, you can put those tests in the commonTest source set and run them on any other target that supports debugging (JVM, for example).
P.S. We are working on making it possible to use the debugger functionality in outside-of-browser VMs, but right now, only WAMR provides all the needed functionality.

[Daniel]

Can you share your WAMR example or config? Or, at least, your experiences with using WAMR?

We have integrated with wasmtime but are looking for a lighter weight runtime (in terms of library size and memory use.) WAMR has come up as an interesting alternative and any feedback you have would be really helpful for us.

[Artem Kobzar]

We have a PR in kotlin-wasm-wasi-template, for setting up WAMR: https://github.com/Kotlin/kotlin-wasm-wasi-template/pull/4
I still encountered a weird issue last time, but I did not re-check it after creating the PR.