API Reference¶

This section lists Emscripten’s public API, organised by header file. At a very high level it consists of:

• emscripten.h:

  APIs for integrating with the browser environment.

• html5.h:

  Low level glue bindings for interfacing with HTML5 APIs from native code.

• preamble.js:

  APIs for working with compiled code from JavaScript.

• File System API (library_fs.js):

  APIs for managing file systems and synchronous file operations.

• Module object:

  Global JavaScript object that can be used to control code execution and access exported methods.

• val.h (under-construction):

  Embind API to support transliteration of JavaScript code to C++.

• bind.h (under-construction):

  Embind API for binding C++ functions and classes so that they can be called from JavaScript in a natural way.

• trace.h:

  A tracing API for doing memory usage analysis.

• Advanced APIs:

  APIs for advanced users/core developers.