clacla (Aug 06 2024 at 12:40): clacla (Aug 06 2024 at 12:40):Hello, I am writing a programming language. I am trying translating my AST to Cranelift IR and then compile it to WASM.
I am having a hard time making progress. I was able to write a basic function with numeric variable. But now I am having a really hard time to translate more of my language AST to Cranelift IR.
Specifically I am having a hard time doing simple things like:
Apart from the API documentation, cranelift-jit-demo and kaleidoscope-cranelift I have not found any guide, examples or extensive documentation. I am not a compiler expert so I need more help probably.
Do you have any documentation, guides or well documented examples that you can share?
Thank you very much
PS: I originally posted this message in the SIG Documentation channel, but since I got no reply I reposted it here.
Chris Fallin (Aug 06 2024 at 14:58):clacla said:
Hello, I am writing a programming language. I am trying translating my AST to Cranelift IR and then compile it to WASM.
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hard time doing simple things like:
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- generate a WASM file to call in a browser
Unfortunately Cranelift does not support Wasm as a target; only the four native ISAs x86-64, aarch64, riscv64, and s390x. If your goal is to generate Wasm I'd recommend looking into libraries like walrus or waffle, or perhaps Binaryen's producer API.
clacla (Aug 06 2024 at 16:12):Thank you a lot Chris. I re-read the Cranelift documentation and now I get it. I was using it for something wrong. My bad.
Thank you also for suggesting walrus and Binaryen. I will experiment with these frameworks, they seem to be made for what I need
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