Home
» API Reference
This section lists Emscripten’s public API, organised by header file. At a very high level it consists of:
emscripten.h: APIs for integrating with the browser environment.
html5.h: Low level glue bindings for interfacing with HTML5 APIs from native code.
console.h: Functions to writing to the console and stdout/stderr.
preamble.js: APIs for working with compiled code from JavaScript.
File System API (library_fs.js): APIs for managing file systems and synchronous file operations.
Fetch API: API for managing accesses to network XHR and IndexedDB.
Wasm Workers API: Enables writing multithreaded programs using a web-like API.
Wasm Audio Worklets API: Allows programs to implement audio processing nodes that run in a dedicated real-time audio processing thread context.
Module object: Global JavaScript object that can be used to control code execution and access exported methods.
val.h: Embind API to support transliteration of JavaScript code to C++.
bind.h (under-construction): Embind API for binding C++ functions and classes so that they can be called from JavaScript in a natural way.
trace.h: A tracing API for doing memory usage analysis.
fiber.h: API for working with Fibers (co-operative threads)
proxying.h: API for synchronously or asynchronously proxying work to a target pthread.
stack.h: Inspecting the WebAssembly data stack.
Advanced APIs: APIs for advanced users/core developers.