# Implementing WebAssembly Proposals
## Adding New Support for a Wasm Proposal
The following checkboxes enumerate the steps required to add support for a new
WebAssembly proposal to Wasmtime. They can be completed over the course of
multiple pull requests.
* Add support to the
[`wasmparser`](https://github.com/bytecodealliance/wasm-tools/tree/main/crates/wasmparser)
crate.
* Add support to the
[`wat`](https://github.com/bytecodealliance/wasm-tools/tree/main/crates/wat)
and
[`wast`](https://github.com/bytecodealliance/wasm-tools/tree/main/crates/wast)
crates.
* Add support to the
[`wasmprinter`](https://github.com/bytecodealliance/wasm-tools/tree/main/crates/wasmprinter)
crate.
* Add support to the
[`wasm-encoder`](https://github.com/bytecodealliance/wasm-tools/tree/main/crates/wasm-encoder)
crate.
* Add support to the
[`wasm-smith`](https://github.com/bytecodealliance/wasm-tools/tree/main/crates/wasm-smith)
crate.
* Add a `wasmtime::Config::enable_foo_bar` method to
the `wasmtime` crate.
* Add a `--enable-foo-bar` command line flag to the
`wasmtime` binary.
* Enable the spec tests in
[`build.rs`](https://github.com/bytecodealliance/wasmtime/blob/c7cd70fcec3eee66c9d7b5aa6fb4580d5a802218/build.rs#L41-L52)
but [mark them as
ignored](https://github.com/bytecodealliance/wasmtime/blob/c7cd70fcec3eee66c9d7b5aa6fb4580d5a802218/build.rs#L196)
for now.
* Stop ignoring individual spec tests and get them
passing one by one.
* Enable the proposal in [the fuzz
targets](./contributing-fuzzing.html).
* Add examples from the spec tests to [the relevant
corpora](https://github.com/bytecodealliance/wasmtime-libfuzzer-corpus).
> The `wast2json` tool from [WABT] is useful for this.
* Write a custom fuzz target, oracle, and/or test
case generator for fuzzing this proposal in particular.
> For example, we wrote a [custom
> generator](https://github.com/bytecodealliance/wasmtime/blob/c7cd70fcec3eee66c9d7b5aa6fb4580d5a802218/crates/fuzzing/src/generators/table_ops.rs),
> [oracle](https://github.com/bytecodealliance/wasmtime/blob/c7cd70fcec3eee66c9d7b5aa6fb4580d5a802218/crates/fuzzing/src/oracles.rs#L417-L467),
> and [fuzz
> target](https://github.com/bytecodealliance/wasmtime/blob/c7cd70fcec3eee66c9d7b5aa6fb4580d5a802218/fuzz/fuzz_targets/table_ops.rs)
> for exercising `table.{get,set}` instructions and their interaction with
> GC while implementing the reference types proposal.
* Expose the proposal's new functionality in the
`wasmtime` crate's API.
> For example, the bulk memory operations proposal introduced a `table.copy`
> instruction, and we exposed its functionality as the `wasmtime::Table::copy`
> method.
* Expose the proposal's new functionality in the C API.
> This may require extensions to the standard C API, and if so, should be
> defined in
> [`wasmtime.h`](https://github.com/bytecodealliance/wasmtime/blob/c7cd70fcec3eee66c9d7b5aa6fb4580d5a802218/crates/c-api/include/wasmtime.h)
> and prefixed with `wasmtime_`.
* Use the C API to expose the proposal's new
functionality in the other language embedding APIs:
* [Python](https://github.com/bytecodealliance/wasmtime-py/)
* [Go](https://github.com/bytecodealliance/wasmtime-go/)
* [.NET](https://github.com/bytecodealliance/wasmtime-dotnet/)
* Document support for the proposal in
`wasmtime/docs/stability-wasm-proposals-support.md`.
## Enabling Support for a Proposal by Default
These are the standards that must be met to enable support for a proposal by
default in Wasmtime, and can be used as a review checklist.
* The proposal must be in phase 4, or greater, of [the
WebAssembly standardization process][phases].
* All spec tests must be passing in Wasmtime.
* No open questions, design concerns, or serious known
bugs.
* Has been fuzzed for at least a week minimum.
* We are confident that the fuzzers are fully
exercising the proposal's functionality.
> For example, it would *not* have been enough to simply enable reference
> types in the `compile` fuzz target to enable that proposal by
> default. Compiling a module that uses reference types but not instantiating
> it nor running any of its functions doesn't exercise any of the GC
> implementation and does not run the inline fast paths for `table` operations
> emitted by the JIT. Exercising these things was the motivation for writing
> the custom fuzz target for `table.{get,set}` instructions.
* The proposal's functionality is exposed in the
`wasmtime` crate's API.
* The proposal's functionality is exposed in the C API.
* The proposal's functionality is exposed in at least
one of the other languages' APIs.
[phases]: https://github.com/WebAssembly/meetings/blob/master/process/phases.md
[WABT]: https://github.com/WebAssembly/wabt/
## Adding component functionality to WASI
The [cap-std](https://github.com/bytecodealliance/cap-std) repository contains
crates which implement the capability-based version of the Rust standard library
and extensions to that functionality. Once the functionality has been added to
the relevant crates of that repository, they can be added into wasmtime by
including them in the preview2 directory of the [wasi crate](https://github.com/bytecodealliance/wasmtime/tree/main/crates/wasi).
Currently, WebAssembly modules which rely on preview2 ABI cannot be directly
executed by the wasmtime command. The following steps allow for testing such
changes.
1. Build wasmtime with the changes `cargo build --release`
2. Create a simple Webassembly module to test the new component functionality by
compiling your test code to the `wasm32-wasip1` build target.
3. Build the [wasi-preview1-component-adapter](https://github.com/bytecodealliance/wasmtime/tree/main/crates/wasi-preview1-component-adapter)
as a command adapter. `cargo build -p wasi-preview1-component-adapter --target
wasm32-wasip1 --release --features command --no-default-features`
4. Use [wasm-tools](https://github.com/bytecodealliance/wasm-tools) to convert
the test module to a component. `wasm-tools component new --adapt
wasi_snapshot_preview1=wasi_snapshot_preview1.command.wasm -o component.wasm
path/to/test/module`
5. Run the test component created in the previous step with the locally built
wasmtime. `wasmtime -W component-model=y -S preview2=y component.wasm`