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nixpkgs already has infrastructure to compile to wasi the same way you compile to other platforms like arm, darwin (macOS), musl, etc.
nix-build -A pkgsCross.wasi32.$pkg
i haven't found any
$pkg
there that actually builds though.coreutils
depends on posix stuff,busybox
tries to include a non-existentnetdb.h
file. evenhello
barfs inside i think some autotools-generated wrapper aroundfcntl
.i don't understand enough about wasm to know if it really is reasonable to think of it as a "system" the same was
x86_64-linux
oraarch64-multiplatform
is a "system", but if so i'd love the equivalent of this blog post showing how to use (or fix) the wasi32 system!