What's the difference between wasmer compile and wasmer create-exe

[Hywan]

That's a tracking issue. I noticed that wasmer compile says “Compile a WebAssembly binary”, and wasmer create-exe says “Compile a WebAssembly binary into a native executable”. That's confusing. We should either clarify this, or re-design the API :-).

[syrusakbary]

@Hywan wasmer create-exe creates an executable that has the VM attached inside, so it can be run directly, without a Wasmer runtime.

wasmer create-exe myfile.wasm -o ./myexe
./myexe # this should not require wasmer, it's also even faster to start since it doesn't require any dlopen/dlsym at runtime (the code is already attached to the binary)

wasmer compile myfile.wasm -o myfile.so --native
wasmer run myfile.so # this requires wasmer