Overview

The wasmedge-sys crate defines a group of low-level Rust APIs for WasmEdge, a light-weight, high-performance, and extensible WebAssembly runtime for cloud-native, edge, and decentralized applications.

For developers, it is recommended that the APIs in wasmedge-sys are used to construct high-level libraries, while wasmedge-sdk is for building up business applications.

Notice that wasmedge-sdk requires Rust v1.63 or above in the stable channel.

Versioning Table

The following table provides the versioning information about each crate of WasmEdge Rust bindings.

| wasmedge-sdk | WasmEdge lib | wasmedge-sys | wasmedge-types| wasmedge-macro| | :-----------: | :-----------: | :-----------: | :-----------: | :-----------: | | 0.7.0 | 0.11.2 | 0.12 | 0.3.1 | 0.3.0 | | 0.6.0 | 0.11.2 | 0.11 | 0.3.0 | 0.2.0 | | 0.5.0 | 0.11.1 | 0.10 | 0.3.0 | 0.1.0 | | 0.4.0 | 0.11.0 | 0.9 | 0.2.1 | - | | 0.3.0 | 0.10.1 | 0.8 | 0.2 | - | | 0.1.0 | 0.10.0 | 0.7 | 0.1 | - |

Build

To use or build the wasmedge-sys crate, the WasmEdge library is required.

If you choose to use install.sh to install WasmEdge Runtime on your local system. Please use WASMEDGE_INCLUDE_DIR and WASMEDGE_LIB_DIR to specify the paths to the include and lib directories, respectively. For example, use the following commands to specify the paths after using bash install.sh --path=$HOME/wasmedge-install to install WasmEdge Runtime on Ubuntu 20.04:

bash export WASMEDGE_INCLUDE_DIR=$HOME/wasmedge-install/include export WASMEDGE_LIB_DIR=$HOME/wasmedge-install/lib
If you choose to manually download WasmEdge Runtime binary from WasmEdge Releases Page, it is strongly recommended to place it in $HOME/.wasmedge directory. It looks like below on Ubuntu 20.04. wasmedge-sys will search the directory automatically, you do not have to set any environment variables for it.

``bash // $HOME/.wasmedge/ . |-- bin | |-- wasmedge |-- wasmedgec |-- include | -- wasmedge | |-- enum.inc | |-- enum_configure.h | |-- enum_errcode.h | |-- enum_types.h | |-- int128.h | |-- version.h |-- wasmedge.h -- lib64 |-- libwasmedge_c.so-- wasmedge `-- libwasmedgePluginWasmEdgeProcess.so

5 directories, 11 files ```

Enable WasmEdge Plugins

If you'd like to enable WasmEdge Plugins (currently, only available on Linux platform), please use WASMEDGE_PLUGIN_PATH environment variable to specify the path to the directory containing the plugins. For example, use the following commands to specify the path on Ubuntu 20.04:

bash export WASMEDGE_PLUGIN_PATH=$HOME/.wasmedge/lib/wasmedge

Example

A quick-start example below is using wasmedge-sys to run a WebAssembly module written with its WAT format (textual format):

```rust use wasmedgesys::{Vm, WasmValue}; use wasmedgetypes::wat2wasm;

[cfg_attr(test, test)]

fn main() -> Result<(), Box> { // read the wasm bytes let wasmbytes = wat2wasm( br#" (module (export "fib" (func $fib)) (func $fib (param $n i32) (result i32) (if (i32.lts (getlocal $n) (i32.const 2) ) (return (i32.const 1) ) ) (return (i32.add (call $fib (i32.sub (getlocal $n) (i32.const 2) ) ) (call $fib (i32.sub (get_local $n) (i32.const 1) ) ) ) ) ) ) "#, )?;

// create a Vm instance
let mut vm = Vm::create(None, None)?;

// register the wasm bytes
let module_name = "extern-module";
vm.register_wasm_from_buffer(module_name, &wasm_bytes)?;

// run the exported function named "fib"
let func_name = "fib";
let result = vm.run_registered_function(module_name, func_name, [WasmValue::from_i32(5)])?;

assert_eq!(result.len(), 1);
assert_eq!(result[0].to_i32(), 8);

Ok(())