Hey, I wanted to start playing with the WASM suppo...

# kotlin-native

[sdeleuze]

Hey, I wanted to start playing with the WASM support I have been hoping since last year, but I was not able to go very far: Target WASM32 is not available on the LINUX host. Any chance to support Linux in next release ?

[olonho]

You can use macOS hosts for now, we can cross-compile toolchain for other hosts as well in upcoming releases (not sure, shall it be Windows or Linux hosts, although)

[sdeleuze]

Is it doable from a Linux machine ? (I have no Mac anymore)

[napperley]

Does end up being very odd that there is no Linux support. Is there a REALLY good reason why there is no Linux support for the WASM target?

[napperley]

Here is a reminder that the Linux desktop is a MAJOR platform widely used by software developers: https://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/2017#technology-platforms

[olonho]

no real reasons, other that time investment in building the toolchain

[tapchicoma]

so is it possible to build against WASM on linux if I build llvm on my machine with WASM target enabled?

[napperley]

Found this article (uses C for its examples) which provides some information about the toolchain for Linux: https://tutorials.technology/tutorials/11-webassembly-initial-steps-tutorial.html

[gildor]

One more big use case for Linux is CI and CD servers

[olonho]

Also binaryen build https://github.com/WebAssembly/binaryen with patch along lines of https://github.com/JetBrains/kotlin-native/blob/master/contrib/binaryen.diff would be needed

[sdeleuze]

I guess I will wait it to be properly supported on Linux, thanks for your feedback

[napperley]

Is the situation going to be rectified in time for the v0.5 release?