Currently the build tool requires a pkg.zip containing the compile and link WASM tools and Go binary archives for stdlib and other libraries for linking. We'd rather not pollute the repo with a 51MB file, so we have to be clever.
One idea is just building from source; Pull dependencies, compile link and compile tools, compile libraries to Go binary archives, construct importcfgs, and zip everything up at build time. Compiling libraries to Go archives is potentially a pitfall, as Go doesn't actually have an official way to do this. However, through some testing it seems our go install -a -work hack might work if we use a main.go just containing imports. We may still run into package version mismatching issues though, I'm not sure.
Other than that building from source seems doable!
Currently the build tool requires a
pkg.zipcontaining thecompileandlinkWASM tools and Go binary archives for stdlib and other libraries for linking. We'd rather not pollute the repo with a 51MB file, so we have to be clever.One idea is just building from source; Pull dependencies, compile
linkandcompiletools, compile libraries to Go binary archives, constructimportcfgs, and zip everything up at build time. Compiling libraries to Go archives is potentially a pitfall, as Go doesn't actually have an official way to do this. However, through some testing it seems ourgo install -a -workhack might work if we use amain.gojust containing imports. We may still run into package version mismatching issues though, I'm not sure.Other than that building from source seems doable!