| WABT(1) | General Commands Manual | WABT(1) |
NAME¶
wat2wasm —
translate from WebAssembly text format to the WebAssembly
binary format
SYNOPSIS¶
wat2wasm |
[options] file |
DESCRIPTION¶
wat2wasm Read a file in the wasm text
format, check it for errors, and convert it to the wasm binary format.
The options are as follows:
--help- Print this help message
--version- Print version information
-v,--verbose- Use multiple times for more info
--debug-parser- Turn on debugging the parser of wat files
-d,--dump-module- Print a hexdump of the module to stdout
--enable-exceptions- Enable Experimental exception handling
--disable-mutable-globals- Disable Import/export mutable globals
--disable-saturating-float-to-int- Disable Saturating float-to-int operators
--disable-sign-extension- Disable Sign-extension operators
--disable-simd- Disable SIMD support
--enable-threads- Enable Threading support
--enable-function-references- Enable Typed function references
--disable-multi-value- Disable Multi-value
--enable-tail-call- Enable Tail-call support
--disable-bulk-memory- Disable Bulk-memory operations
--disable-reference-types- Disable Reference types (externref)
--enable-annotations- Enable Custom annotation syntax
--enable-code-metadata- Enable Code metadata
--enable-gc- Enable Garbage collection
--enable-memory64- Enable 64-bit memory
--enable-multi-memory- Enable Multi-memory
--enable-extended-const- Enable Extended constant expressions
--enable-all- Enable all features
-o,--output=FILE- Output wasm binary file. Use "-" to write to stdout.
-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 test.wat and write to .wasm binary file with the same name
$ wat2wasm test.watParse test.wat and write to binary file test.wasm
$ wat2wasm test.wat -o
test.wasmParse spec-test.wast, and write verbose output to stdout (including the meaning of every byte)
$ wat2wasm spec-test.wast
-vSEE ALSO¶
wasm-decompile(1), wasm-interp(1), wasm-objdump(1), wasm-stats(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.
| August 16, 2025 | Debian |