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Cheerp - a C/C++ compiler for Web applications
Cheerp is an open-source, commercial C/C++ compiler for Web applications. It allows to compile virtually any C/C++ code (up to C++17) to WebAssembly, JavaScript, asm.js or a combination thereof.
Main documentation link: https://github.com/leaningtech/cheerp-meta/wiki
Main project link: https://leaningtech.com/pages/cheerp.html
This repository is the main reference for documentation, issue tracking, and release notes.
What is Cheerp
Cheerp is a C/C++ compiler for the Web, based and integrated into the LLVM/clang infrastructure, and featuring numerous custom optimisation steps to maximise performance and minimise size of the compiled JavaScript/WebAssembly output. Thanks to this, Cheerp is the best performing, most optimised C++ to WebAssembly compiler available on the market
Cheerp is used primarily to port existing C/C++ libraries and applications to HTML5, but can also be used to write high-performance Web applications and WebAssembly components from scratch. C/C++ gets optimised and compiled into JavaScript/WebAssembly, and can easily be integrated in a web page.
What is unique about Cheerp?
Cheerp enables C/C++ code to be compiled to WebAssembly, JavaScript, asm.js or a combination thereof. Compared to alternative C/C++ compilers for web applications such as Emscripten, Cheerp:
- Generates faster WebAssembly code, but can also compile to a JavaScript output with dynamic memory (garbage-collectible output), zero-overhead DOM manipulation and access to WebApis and superior C++-JavaScript interoperability.
- Allows to compile a single code base into a combination of WebAssembly and JavaScript by (optionally) tagging portions of the code with
[[cheerp::genericjs]]
and[[cheerp::wasm]]
. - Generates smaller WebAssembly outputs.
Cheerp is open-source software and is free to use for GPLv2 projects. Non-copyleft commercial licenses, commercial support and consulting packages are available from Leaning Technologies.
Get started
First time user? We recommend following the Getting started page, that will guide though this steps:
Or look at the sidebar to find lots of useful materials
Bugs and Questions
You can get in touch with us using our Gitter chat, or by filing a bug on our Issue tracker.
Documentation
Documentation is available at https://github.com/leaningtech/cheerp-meta/wiki.