Setting up our environment

To program in WebAssembly, we need to get the wat2wasm program on our machine. The best way to do this is to download the repository for the WebAssembly suite of programs and get them compiled for our computer. Follow these steps to do so:

  1. We need to get a program called CMake onto our system. For Linux/OS X, this just means going to https://cmake.org/download/ and running the installer. For those of you who are on Windows, this is a bit lengthier. Go to https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/vs/ and get Visual Studio. Make sure to get the C/C++ modules for it. With both CMake and Visual Studio on our machines, we can now move on and compile the WebAssembly suite of tools.
  2. Head to https://github.com/WebAssembly/wabt ...

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