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

- -disable-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.