Emscripten Documentation¶

This comprehensive documentation set contains everything you need to know to use Emscripten.

Getting started:

• Introducing Emscripten explains what Emscripten does, why it is needed, its limitations and its licensing. It will help you understand whether Emscripten is the right tool for you.
• Getting Started walks you through downloading, installing and using the Emscripten SDK.

Emscripten Fundamentals:

• Porting illustrates the main differences between the native and Emscripten runtime environments, and explains the changes you need to make to prepare your C/C++ code for the Web.
• optimizing-index shows how to optimise your code for size and performance.
• Compiling and Running Projects demonstrates how to integrate Emscripten into your existing project build system.

Contributing:

• Contributing to Emscripten explains how you can contribute to the project.
• Building Emscripten from Source explains how to build Emscripten from sources on Github (this is useful for contributors).
• About this site describes the documentation tools and writing conventions used to create this site.

Reference:

• API Reference is a reference for the Emscripten toolchain.
• Tools Reference is a reference for the Emscripten integration APIs.

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