# Building & Running For Web (Emscripten)

Building in Emscripten - asm.js/WebAssembly - works on Linux and WSL.

You will need to install the emscripten compiler. See https://emscripten.org/docs/getting_started/downloads.html for complete instructions, but generally you should just browse to your desired directory and:

```
git clone https://github.com/emscripten-core/emsdk.git
cd emsdk
./emsdk install latest
./emsdk activate latest
source ./emsdk_env.sh
```

You should now have commands like `emcc` in your path, and an `EMSDK` environment variable set ready to build your project.

In your project directory:

``` shell
mkdir build.em
cd build.em
emcmake cmake .. -D32BLIT_DIR="/path/to/32blit/repo"
make
python3 -m http.server
```

Make sure to include the `-D32BLIT_DIR="/path/to/32blit/repo"` parameter to the `cmake` command (even when building the SDK examples). You must specify an absolute path here when building with Emscripten.

Finally, open the URL given by Python's HTTP server in your browser and open your project's .html file.