Compiling lua lang to wasm with emscripten

In this video, I walk through my progress of compiling the Lua virtual machine source code into WebAssembly (Wasm) using Emscripten. My goal is to embed Lua Wasm into RapidForge to allow users to execute Lua scripts without needing to install Lua on their host machines.

I begin by explaining the basics of Wasm technology and demonstrating a simple C program compiled to Wasm using Emscripten. From there, I describe the challenges I encountered when trying to compile Lua to Wasm using the Wasi SDK and why I switched to Emscripten. After making some modifications to the Makefile, I successfully compiled Lua into Wasm, along with the necessary JavaScript files to execute Lua scripts in a WebAssembly environment.

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