go-wabt is a distribution of wabt, that can be built with Go. It does not actually reimplement any
functionality of wabt in Go, instead the original WebAssembly binaries, and
executing with the pure Go Wasm runtime wazero. This means that go install
or go run
can be used to execute it, with no need to rely on external package managers such as Homebrew,
on any platform that Go supports.
Precompiled binaries are available in the releases.
Alternatively, install the plugin you want using go install
.
$ go install github.com/wasilibs/go-wabt/cmd/wasm2wat@latest
To avoid installation entirely, it can be convenient to use go run
$ go run github.com/wasilibs/go-wabt/cmd/wasm2wat@latest my.wasm
Note that due to the sandboxing of the filesystem when using Wasm, currently only files that descend
from the current directory when executing the tool are accessible to it, i.e., ../wasm/my.wasm
or
/separate/root/my.wasm
will not be found.