**aWsm** is an efficient WASM runtime built with the `silverfish` compiler. This is an active research effort with regular breaking changes and no guarantees of stability.
## Host Dependencies
- Docker
Additionally, if you want to execute the Awsm runtime on your host environment, you need libuv. A reason you might want to do this is to debug your serverless function, as GDB does not seem to run properly within a Docker container.
If on Debian, you can install libuv with the following:
```bash
./devenv.sh install_libuv
```
## Setting up the environment
**Note: These steps require Docker. Make sure you've got it installed!**
We provide a Docker build environment configured with the dependencies and toolchain needed to build the Awsm runtime and serverless functions.
To setup this environment, run:
```bash
./devenv.sh setup
```
To enter the docker environment, run:
```
```bash
./devenv.sh run
```
## To run applications
**From within the Docker container environment.**
### From within the Docker container environment
Run the following to copy the awsmrt binary to /awsm/runtime/bin.
```
```bash
cd /awsm/runtime
make clean all
```
There are a set of benchmarking applications in the `/awsm/runtime/tests` directory. Run the following to compile all benchmarks runtime tests using silverfish and then copy all resulting `<application>_wasm.so` files to /awsm/runtime/bin.
```
```bash
cd /awsm/runtime/tests/
make clean all
```
@ -47,15 +53,16 @@ make clean all
You've now built the binary and some tests. We will now execute these commands from the host
To exit the container:
```
```bash
exit
```
**From the host environment**
### From the host environment
You should be in the root project directory (not in the Docker container)
```
```bash
cd runtime/bin/
```
@ -63,24 +70,25 @@ We can now run Awsm with one of the serverless functions we built. Let's run Fib
Because serverless functions are loaded by Aswsm as shared libraries, we want to add the `runtime/tests/` directory to LD_LIBRARY_PATH.