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several reasons with a common theme of convenience, namely,
having a monorepo:
1. cleans up the problem of dependencies (as we have seen first
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2. completely removes the problem of syncing the closely dependent
   repos (e.g., updating `wasi-common` with say a bugfix generally
   implies creating a "sync" commit for pulling in the changes into
   the "parent" repo, in this case, `wasmtime`)
3. mainly for the two reasons above, makes publishing to crates.io
   easier
4. hopefully streamlines the process of getting the community
   involved in contributing to `wasi-common` as now everything
   is one place

[CraneStation/wasi-common]: https://github.com/CraneStation/wasi-common
[CraneStation/wasmtime]: https://github.com/CraneStation/wasmtime
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# wasi-common
The `wasi-common` crate will ultimately serve as a library providing a common implementation of
WASI hostcalls for re-use in any WASI (and potentially non-WASI) runtimes
such as [Wasmtime] and [Lucet].
The library is an adaption of [lucet-wasi] crate from the [Lucet] project, and it is
currently based on [40ae1df][lucet-wasi-tracker] git revision.
Please note that the library requires Rust compiler version at least 1.37.0.
[Wasmtime]: https://github.com/CraneStation/wasmtime
[Lucet]: https://github.com/fastly/lucet
[lucet-wasi]: https://github.com/fastly/lucet/tree/master/lucet-wasi
[lucet-wasi-tracker]: https://github.com/fastly/lucet/commit/40ae1df64536250a2b6ab67e7f167d22f4aa7f94
## Supported syscalls
### *nix
In our *nix implementation, we currently support the entire [WASI API]
with the exception of socket hostcalls:
- `sock_recv`
- `sock_send`
- `sock_shutdown`
We expect these to be implemented when network access is standardised.
We also currently do not support the `proc_raise` hostcall, as it is expected to
be dropped entirely from WASI.
[WASI API]: https://github.com/CraneStation/wasmtime/blob/master/docs/WASI-api.md
### Windows
In our Windows implementation, we currently support the minimal subset of [WASI API]
which allows for running the very basic "Hello world!" style WASM apps. More coming shortly,
so stay tuned!
## Development hints
When testing the crate, you may want to enable and run full wasm32 integration testsuite. This
requires `wasm32-wasi` target installed which can be done as follows using [rustup]
```
rustup target add wasm32-wasi
```
[rustup]: https://rustup.rs
Next initiate submodules containing the integration testsuite
```
git submodule update --init
```
Now, you should be able to run the integration testsuite by enabling the `wasm_tests` feature
```
cargo test --features wasm_tests
```
## Third-Party Code
Significant parts of our hostcall implementations are derived from the C implementations in
`cloudabi-utils`. See [LICENSE.cloudabi-utils](LICENSE.cloudabi-utils) for license information.