WABT(1)

WABT(1) | General Commands Manual | WABT(1)

# NAME

wat2wasm — translate from WebAssembly text format to the WebAssembly binary format

# SYNOPSIS

wat2wasm | [options] file

# DESCRIPTION

wat2wasm translates from WebAssembly text format to the WebAssembly binary format.
The options are as follows:

-v, --verbose
  Use multiple times for more info
--help
  Print a help message
--debug-parser
  Turn on debugging the parser of wat files
-d, --dump-module
  Print a hexdump of the module to stdout
--enable-exceptions
  Experimental exception handling
--disable-mutable-globals
  Import/export mutable globals
--enable-saturating-float-to-int
  Saturating float-to-int operators
--enable-sign-extension
  Sign-extension operators
--enable-simd
  SIMD support
--enable-threads
  Threading support
-o, --output=FILE
  output wasm binary file
-r, --relocatable
  Create a relocatable wasm binary (suitable for linking with e.g. lld)
--no-canonicalize-leb128s
  Write all LEB128 sizes as 5-bytes instead of their minimal size
--debug-names
  Write debug names to the generated binary file
--no-check
  Don't check for invalid modules

# EXAMPLES

Parse and typecheck test.wat
`$ wat2wasm test.wat`
parse test.wat and write to binary file test.wasm
`$ wat2wasm test.wat -o test.wasm`
Parse spec-test.wast, and write verbose output to stdout (including the meaning of every byte)
`$ wat2wasm spec-test.wast -v`

# SEE ALSO

wasm-interp(1), wasm-objdump(1), wasm-opcodecnt(1), wasm-strip(1), wasm-validate(1), wasm2c(1), wasm2wat(1), wast2json(1), wat-desugar(1), spectest-interp(1)

# BUGS

If you find a bug, please report it at
https://github.com/WebAssembly/wabt/issues.

December 17, 2018 | Debian