Hey there 🤗, Welcome to my GSoC Journey

This is a series of blogs that I am writing to share my amazing GSoC 22 (Google Summer of Code 2022) Journey with you all.

Supporting Several Features and Final Fixes

Hi all, this was the final week of GSoC. It was full of fun and learning.  In this week, I worked on several features, which range from automating the upload of wasm builds at CI to implementing support for the runtime library.

We added the following features to the wasm backend during this week:

• Support for runtime library at https://dev.lfortran.org/
• Support for defining functions in any order
• Support for basic string variables
• Support for importing functions from JS using bind(C) and interface approach
• Uploading the built lfortran.js, lfortran.wasm and lfortran.data to https://github.com/lfortran/wasm_builds
• Several minor (yet important) features/fixes

This phase was mostly/approximately from 13-08-2022 to 23-08-2022.

The MRs during this phase are as follows:

At lfortran:

• WASM: Support bind C for array passing to JavaScript #153
• CI: Building LFortran to WASM #157
• WASM: Support WAT for bind(c) functions #588
• CI: Fix CI and upload to wasm_builds #619
• CI: Fix upload to wasm_builds #622
• WAT: verify preamble #631
• CI: Fix: Overwrite the latest_commit file #632
• WAT: wasm_to_wat error handling #634
• WASM: Support defining functions in any order #635
• WASM: Enable supporting integration_tests #636
• WASM, WAT: Improve code formatting #637
• WASM: Support basic string variables #640
• WASM: Add support for cpu_time #641
• WASM: Remove function with no body warning #642
• WASM: Support runtime library #643
• WASM: Fix import functions bug #657

At lcompilers_frontend:

• Download files from wasm builds #30
• CI: trigger on post request #35
• [Support cpu_time #36](Support cpu_time #36)
• Support runtime library #37
• Increment lfortran latest_commit #39

That’s all for this blog. Thank you for your time.