Building a WebAssembly Application
At the beginning of this chapter, you built and ran a simple Rust-based WebAssembly application using WebAssembly studio. In this section, you’ll install some tools on your machine that will allow you to compile and interpret WebAssembly modules.
Installing the WebAssembly Binary Toolkit
The WebAssembly Binary Toolkit (pronounced “wabbit”) is a general-purpose set of command-line tools you’ll use for building, examining, and troubleshooting WebAssembly modules. Whether you’re on Windows, Mac, or Linux, the first thing you’re going to need to install is CMake.[5]
Installing CMake varies widely across operating systems, so you’ll need to check the instructions specific to your platform. Come back and continue ...
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