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This commit adds initial support for [WebAssembly Interface
Types][proposal] to wasmtime. This is all intended to be quite
experimental, so experimental in fact that even the name of the
[proposal] is still in flux. (this has otherwise been known as "host
bindings" or "webidl bindings" or "wasm bindings").
The goal of this commit is to start adding support the wasmtime set of
crates for WebAssembly Interface Types. A new `wasmtime-interface-types`
crate has been added with very basic support for dynamically invoking
and inspecting the various bindings of a module. This is in turn powered
by the `wasm-webidl-bindings` crate which is shared with the
`wasm-bindgen` CLI tool as a producer of this section.
Currently the only integration in `wasmtime`-the-binary itself is that
when passed the `--invoke` argument the CLI will now attempt to invoke
the target function with arguments as parsed from the command line
itself. For example if you export a function like:
fn render(&str) -> String
Then passing `--invoke render` will require one argument on the command
line, which is the first argument as a string, and the return value is
printed to the console. This differs from today's interpretation of
`--invoke` where it is a failure if the invoked function takes more than
one argument and the return values are currently ignored.
This is intended to also be the basis of embedding wasmtime in other
contexts which also want to consume WebAssembly interface types. A
Python extension is also added to this repository which implements the
`wasmtime` package on PyPI. This Python extension is intended to make it
as easy as `pip3 install wasmtime` to load a WebAssembly file with
WebAssembly Interface Types into Python. Extensions for other languages
is of course possible as well!
One of the major missing pieces from this is handling imported functions
with interface bindings. Currently the embedding support doesn't have
much ability to support handling imports ergonomically, so it's intended
that this will be included in a follow-up patch.
[proposal]: https://github.com/webassembly/webidl-bindings
Co-authored-by: Yury Delendik <ydelendik@mozilla.com>
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Python 3 extension for interface with Wasmtime/Cranelift.
Build
First, you'll need to install some Python dependencies:
$ pip3 install setuptools wheel==0.31.1 setuptools-rust
Next you can build the extension with:
rustup run nightly python3 setup.py build
Note that a nightly version of Rust is required due to our usage of PyO3.
This will create a directory called build/lib which you can add to
PYTHONPATH in order to get import wasmtime working.