Getting Started Tutorial

[Shaikh-Ubaid]

Do we have any getting started tutorial for the C++ API? like a blog/readme/article/website/youtube-video etc.?

[tlively]

No, although that would be nice to have. At least a section in the README about how to link against libbinaryen.so would be a good place to start, and from there it wouldn't be hard to add a simple walkthrough of a "hello world"-type application that maybe just loads and prints a module.

We do have the test/example directory which might be useful to look at, but in practice those files are actually tests, so they're not really designed to teach the API.

[Shaikh-Ubaid]

@tlively Thank you for the response! I will look at the examples in the test/example directory.

By the way, just like we have a single header C API, do we also have a single header C++ API?

[tlively]

No, the C++ API includes all of the headers you can find in the source tree. One of these days I would like to at least move them all to a separate include/ directory.

[Shaikh-Ubaid]

Ok, Thank you for the response!

[kripken]

Btw, while test/example/ are tests, they should also be useful as examples. At least I've been thinking of them that way. Hence the name 😄

[Shaikh-Ubaid]

Is there a way to name the variables being used in the WebAssembly Text format?

[tlively]

Yes, check out Function::setLocalName declared in src/wasm.h.

[Shaikh-Ubaid]

Thank you @tlively !