On 2021/05/01 12:27, Karsten Pedersen wrote: > Hello all, > > I am cleaning up my initial port of Emscripten. I have a recent > project to port something to the MS Hololens and I aim to avoid the > disposable WinStore / UWP stuff. Because of this, WebXR seems the > better approach if I can leverage my existing C++ codebase. > > https://github.com/osen/openbsd_emscripten/blob/master/Makefile > > Emscripten is mostly just Clang targeted for the WebAssembly > platform and so far everything is working quite well. > > However the supporting scripts themselves follow a very "web > development" kind of structure and as such they not only rely on > many different random scripting languages (Python, Node, JDK) but > they also drag in a whole heap of (annoyingly trivial) dependencies. > > The one giving the most issue is the Javascript dependencies from > NPM. These are listed inside the Emscripten distfile but this needs > to be extracted before I can get this large NPM list (package.json). > What is the recommended way to do this? I have looked through a
Simplest is usually to fetch via npm out-of-band, tar it up and provide a tar containing the files. > number of similar ports but as far as I can tell they simply fetch > them in during the build (which is what I currently do). Surely we No committed port does this, it is not permitted to fetch during the build stage. > want to grab this list during the fetch stage rather than the build > stage? In the fetch stage, only ports infrastructure does the fetching; i.e. simple http/https/ftp download of files listed in the port Makefile and distinfo. You can't use npm to fetch as part of the port.
