If you don't have opam, you can install it following the how to install opam guide.
If you can't or don't want to use opam, you can build the package with dune build -p owi @install but you'll first have to install the dependencies by yourself. You can find the list of dependencies in the dune-project file.
Quickstart
Given a file test/passing/quickstart.wast with the following content:
You can also pass the --script flag to run the file as a reference test suite script. This will allow you to add constructs like assertions and will also link the spectest module, which provides function for e.g. printing.
If you're interested in the library part of owi, here's how to get started:
# open Owi;;
# let filename = "test/passing/quickstart.wast";;
val filename : string = "test/passing/quickstart.wast"
# let script =
match Parse.from_file ~filename with
| Ok script -> script
| Error e -> failwith e;;
val script : Types.script =
...
# let m =
match script with
| Module m :: _ -> m
| _ -> failwith "expected a module first";;
val m : Types.module_ =
...
# let module_to_run, link_state =
match Compile.until_link Link.empty_state m with
| Ok v -> v
| Error e -> failwith e;;
val module_to_run : Link.module_to_run =
...
val link_state : Link.state =
...
# let () =
Log.debug_on := true;
match Interpret.module_ module_to_run with
| Ok () -> ()
| Error e -> failwith e;;
interpreting ...
stack : [ ]
running instr: call 0
calling func : func f
stack : [ ]
running instr: i32.const 24
stack : [ i32.const 24 ]
running instr: i32.const 24
stack : [ i32.const 24 ; i32.const 24 ]
running instr: i32.add
stack : [ i32.const 48 ]
running instr: drop
stack : [ ]
stack : [ ]