emscripten port

[franciscod]

because why the hell no?

https://hacks.mozilla.org/2014/11/porting-to-emscripten/

[cydactyl]

+1, I am very interested in seeing this happen, I think it would be awesome for the project. I've been looking into ASM.js since the Humble Mozilla Bundle, and actually just recently considered trying to port openage. It doesn't seem too difficult a task, even given my lack of familiarity with C++ and other compiled languages so I will try to give it a shot when I get some free time. Thank you for the provided link.

[franciscod]

:D

i don't know much about emscripten and asm.js but it seems really cool. The Humble Mozilla Bundle was a main inspiration, also i got the link from a website on which i waste spend a lot of time reading

[mic-e]

Huh... didn't even know that existed. However the "no threads" thing seems to be a blocker...

Threads are

• used internally be SDL (which we may or may not need)
• used by the job manager
• more...

[franciscod]

pun intended? lol

[mic-e]

lol no

I guess a "no threads" mode could be added to the job manager, but then the game would hang every time a new sound/texture/whatever must be loaded.

[cydactyl]

Apparently 'multi-threading' is possible by using html5 webworkers and high-level message passing API to pass work to individual CPU cores, it's just not how it's traditionally done in C/C++ multithreading in emscripten with html5. I will look into how it would need to be done with existing code, Hopefully I will have some time over the next couple of days.

[cydactyl]

a PNaCL port would be cool as well, https://developer.chrome.com/native-client

[franciscod]

related to #54 somehow

[franciscod]

Emscripten + CMake!

https://github.com/kripken/emscripten/blob/master/cmake/Modules/Platform/Emscripten.cmake

[TheJJ]

I doubt we will ever come to this :)

[Wandalen]

do you already see EoL of the project?

[TheJJ]

lol no. Then again, somebody might actually do this madness, why not.