How To Install binaryen on Ubuntu 22.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install binaryen on Ubuntu 22.04.
What is binaryen
binaryen is:
Binaryen is a compiler and toolchain infrastructure library for WebAssembly, written in C++. It aims to make compiling to WebAssembly easy, fast, and effective:
Easy: Binaryen has a simple C API in a single header, and can also be used from JavaScript. It accepts input in WebAssembly-like form but also accepts a general control flow graph for compilers that prefer that.
Fast: Binaryen’s internal IR uses compact data structures and is designed for completely parallel codegen and optimization, using all available CPU cores. Binaryen’s IR also compiles down to WebAssembly extremely easily and quickly because it is essentially a subset of WebAssembly.
Effective: Binaryen’s optimizer has many passes that can improve code very significantly (e.g. local coloring to coalesce local variables; dead code elimination; precomputing expressions when possible at compile time; etc.). These optimizations aim to make Binaryen powerful enough to be used as a compiler backend by itself. One specific area of focus is on WebAssembly-specific optimizations (that general-purpose compilers might not do), which you can think of as wasm minification , similar to minification for JavaScript, CSS, etc., all of which are language-specific (an example of such an optimization is block return value generation in SimplifyLocals).
There are three methods to install binaryen on Ubuntu 22.04. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install binaryen Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install binaryen using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install binaryen
Install binaryen Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install binaryen using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install binaryen
Install binaryen Using aptitude
If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Ubuntu. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install binaryen using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install binaryen
How To Uninstall binaryen on Ubuntu 22.04
To uninstall only the binaryen package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove binaryen
Uninstall binaryen And Its Dependencies
To uninstall binaryen and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 22.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove binaryen
Remove binaryen Configurations and Data
To remove binaryen configuration and data from Ubuntu 22.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge binaryen
Remove binaryen configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove binaryen configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge binaryen
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install binaryen package on Ubuntu 22.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
