This article provides information that is relevant to people who want to contribute to Emscripten. We welcome contributions from anyone that is interested in helping out!
小技巧
The information will be less relevant if you’re just using Emscripten, but may still be of interest.
For contributing to core Emscripten code, such as emcc.py
, you don’t need to
build any binaries as emcc.py
is in Python, and the core JS generation is
in JavaScript. You do still need binaries for LLVM and Binaryen, which you can
get using the emsdk:
emsdk install tot-upstream
emsdk activate tot-upstream
That gets a “tip-of-tree” build of the very latest binaries. You can use those
binaries with a checkout of the core Emscripten repository, simply by calling
emcc.py
from that checkout, and it will use the binaries from the emsdk.
If you do want to contribute to LLVM or Binaryen, or to test modifications to them, you can build them from source.
The Emscripten main repository is https://github.com/emscripten-core/emscripten.
Aside from the Emscripten repo, the other codebases of interest are LLVM and Binaryen, which Emscripten invokes, and have their own repos.
Patches should be submitted as pull requests in the normal way on GitHub.
注解
Together with your first patch, add yourself to the AUTHORS file. By doing so, you agree to license your code under the project’s open source licenses (MIT/LLVM).
When submitting patches, please:
tests/*.py
for related tests, as often the simplest thing is to add to
an existing one. If you’re not sure how to test your code, feel free to ask
for help.One of the core developers will review a pull request before merging it. If several days pass without any comments on your PR, please comment in the PR which will ping them. (If that happens, sorry! Sometimes things get missed.)
The Emscripten Compiler Frontend (emcc) is a python script that manages the entire compilation process:
wasm-ld
to link it. It
builds and integrates with the Emscripten system libraries, both the
compiled ones and the ones implemented in JS.src/compiler.js
and related files) which emits the JS.Emscripten has a comprehensive test suite, which covers virtually all Emscripten functionality. These tests are run on CI automatically when you create a pull request, and they should all pass. If you run into trouble with a test failure you can’t fix, please let the developers know.
If you find a regression, bisection is often the fastest way to figure out what went wrong. This is true not just for finding an actual regression in Emscripten but also if your project stopped working when you upgrade, and you need to investigate if it’s an Emscripten regression or something else.
The normal git bisect
workflow can work if you just need to bisect a single
repository. For example, you can bisect only on the emscripten repo if you are on
a range that all works with the same versions of LLVM and Binaryen (which was
mentioned earlier, are two separate codebases that are depended on).
If you have a large bisection range, you generally can’t bisect a single repo. You can still bisect, though! To do that you need the emsdk and to understand how the release process works for all the repos together. The key “trick” is that:
emsdk install tot
can install an arbitrary build of emscripten: it installs the one identified
in emscripten-releases-tot.txt
. You can therefore bisect on the
releases repo which
has a DEPS file that specifies what version of all the various repos are
in which release. At each bisection step in this repo the git hash identifies a
particular tot release (which when it was built, was tip-of-tree).
For the actual bisection you can use git bisect. Each step in will download a complete build which is not a trivial download. However, at least the number of such steps will be logarithmic!
This bisects down to a single commit in the releases repo. That commit will generally update a single sub-repo from one commit to another. That will often be a very short list or even a single commit. If it’s more than one, you can bisect there while using a fixed build for the other repos.