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106 lines
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This directory houses the [Web Assembly (WASM)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WebAssembly)
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parts of the sqlite3 build.
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It requires [emscripten][] and that the build environment be set up for
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emscripten. A mini-HOWTO for setting that up follows...
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First, install the Emscripten SDK, as documented
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[here](https://emscripten.org/docs/getting_started/downloads.html) and summarized
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below for Linux environments:
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```
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# Clone the emscripten repository:
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$ sudo apt install git
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$ git clone https://github.com/emscripten-core/emsdk.git
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$ cd emsdk
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# Download and install the latest SDK tools:
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$ ./emsdk install latest
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# Make the "latest" SDK "active" for the current user:
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$ ./emsdk activate latest
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```
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Those parts only need to be run once, but the SDK can be updated using:
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```
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$ git pull
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$ ./emsdk install latest
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$ ./emsdk activate latest
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```
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The following needs to be run for each shell instance which needs the
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`emcc` compiler:
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```
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# Activate PATH and other environment variables in the current terminal:
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$ source ./emsdk_env.sh
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$ which emcc
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/path/to/emsdk/upstream/emscripten/emcc
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```
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Optionally, add that to your login shell's resource file (`~/.bashrc`
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or equivalent).
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That `env` script needs to be sourced for building this application
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from the top of the sqlite3 build tree:
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```
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$ make fiddle
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```
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Or:
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```
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$ cd ext/wasm
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$ make
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```
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That will generate the a number of files required for a handful of
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test and demo applications which can be accessed via
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`index.html`. WASM content cannot, due to XMLHttpRequest security
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limitations, be loaded if the containing HTML file is opened directly
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in the browser (i.e. if it is opened using a `file://` URL), so it
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needs to be served via an HTTP server. For example, using
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[althttpd][]:
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```
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$ cd ext/wasm
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$ althttpd --enable-sab --max-age 1 --page index.html
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```
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That will open the system's browser and run the index page, from which
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all of the test and demo applications can be accessed.
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Note that when serving this app via [althttpd][], it must be a version
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from 2022-09-26 or newer so that it recognizes the `--enable-sab`
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flag, which causes althttpd to emit two HTTP response headers which
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are required to enable JavaScript's `SharedArrayBuffer` and `Atomics`
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APIs. Those APIs are required in order to enable the OPFS-related
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features in the apps which use them.
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# Testing on a remote machine that is accessed via SSH
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*NB: The following are developer notes, last validated on 2022-08-18*
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* Remote: Install git, emsdk, and althttpd
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* Use a [version of althttpd][althttpd] from
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September 26, 2022 or newer.
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* Remote: Install the SQLite source tree. CD to ext/wasm
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* Remote: "`make`" to build WASM
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* Remote: `althttpd --enable-sab --port 8080 --popup`
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* Local: `ssh -L 8180:localhost:8080 remote`
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* Local: Point your web-browser at http://localhost:8180/index.html
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In order to enable [SharedArrayBuffers](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects/SharedArrayBuffer),
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the web-browser requires that the two extra Cross-Origin lines be present
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in HTTP reply headers and that the request must come from "localhost".
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Since the web-server is on a different machine from
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the web-broser, the localhost requirement means that the connection must be tunneled
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using SSH.
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[emscripten]: https://emscripten.org
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[althttpd]: https://sqlite.org/althttpd
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