https://github.com/ericsink/wasm2cil

A "compiler" that can take a WebAssembly/WASI module and convert it to a .NET assembly
https://github.com/ericsink/wasm2cil

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A "compiler" that can take a WebAssembly/WASI module and convert it to a .NET assembly

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/ericsink/wasm2cil
• Owner: ericsink
• License: apache-2.0
• Created: 2019-03-28T02:26:43.000Z (almost 6 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2020-06-14T17:36:09.000Z (over 4 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2025-01-02T17:16:12.851Z (13 days ago)
• Language: C
• Homepage:
• Size: 2.86 MB
• Stars: 283
• Watchers: 23
• Forks: 24
• Open Issues: 6
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.md
  • License: LICENSE.TXT

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README

        
# wasm2cil

This is a .NET compiler for WebAssembly modules, including

support for WASI.

Specifically, it can take a WebAssembly module and

translate it into a .NET assembly on disk.

The resulting DLL is not interpreted -- it contains

the same functions as the WebAssembly module, translated

from Wasm instructions to CIL instructions.

This is designed to be used with Clang 8 and

wasi-sysroot.  In that sense, this provides a way

to compile C/C++ for .NET, using Wasm as a halfway

point.  Like an alternative to pinvoke.

(Rust should hopefully work too, but I haven't tried that yet.)

All of this is very much a work in progress.

But the current status is that some basic things

do work.  Working test apps in this repo include a 

small ray tracer and a basic port of SQLite.  The

latter can read and write SQLite database files that

seem to be fully interoperable with "regular" SQLite

builds.

Still, I suggest you not try using this for anything serious yet.

The subdirectories of this repo have README files with

a bit more info.

See [my blog entry](https://ericsink.com/entries/wasm_wasi_dotnet.html) for more information.