WABT(1)

💅 WABT(1) — the manual, bestie edition

okay so real talk, this page lives in the WABT(1) manual, and it's all about wasm-decompile, the little icon that takes your gnarly WebAssembly binary and hands you back something you can actually read. No cap.

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✨ NAME ✨

wasm-decompile — translate from the binary format to readable C-like syntax 🦋

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

wasm-decompile [options] file

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💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

wasm-decompile reads a file in the WebAssembly binary format, and converts it to a decompiled text file. that's it, that's the whole glow-up ✨ binary in, C-like cuteness out.

the options are as follows, and yes we're going through all of them, no skipping, i don't play like that:

• --help — prints a help message 🫶
• --version — prints version information 👑
• -o, --output=FILENAME — where the decompiled file goes. by default it just uses stdout, so it'll spill right into your terminal 💅
• --enable-exceptions — enable Experimental exception handling
• --disable-mutable-globals — disable Import/export mutable globals
• --disable-saturating-float-to-int — disable Saturating float-to-int operators
• --disable-sign-extension — disable Sign-extension operators
• --disable-simd — disable SIMD support
• --enable-threads — enable Threading support
• --enable-function-references — enable Typed function references
• --disable-multi-value — disable Multi-value
• --enable-tail-call — enable Tail-call support
• --disable-bulk-memory — disable Bulk-memory operations
• --disable-reference-types — disable Reference types (externref)
• --enable-annotations — enable Custom annotation syntax
• --enable-code-metadata — enable Code metadata
• --enable-gc — enable Garbage collection
• --enable-memory64 — enable 64-bit memory
• --enable-multi-memory — enable Multi-memory
• --enable-extended-const — enable Extended constant expressions
• --enable-all — enable all features 🔥
• --ignore-custom-section-errors — ignore errors in custom sections

heads up bestie, notice how some of these are --enable- and some are --disable-? that's not a typo, that's literally the flag names. copy them exactly or the whole vibe check fails 💀

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🎀 EXAMPLES 🎀

parse the binary file test.wasm and write the text file test.dcmp:

$ wasm-decompile test.wasm -o test.dcmp

look at her go. iconic behaviour, honestly 🌈

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🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

the whole friend group, all serving looks:

• wasm-interp(1)
• wasm-objdump(1)
• wasm-stats(1)
• wasm-strip(1)
• wasm-validate(1)
• wasm2c(1)
• wasm2wat(1)
• wast2json(1)
• wat-desugar(1)
• wat2wasm(1)
• spectest-interp(1)

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😭 BUGS 😭

if you find a bug, please report it at https://github.com/WebAssembly/wabt/issues — don't just suffer in silence, that's not the energy we're on 🫶

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and that's the whole page, babe. this one ships from Debian, stamped with $Mdocdate$, and it's filed under WABT(1). go decompile something cute 💜✨