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I updated Emscripten recently, to version 3.1.54. The result was that none of the WASM puzzles run any more, because they produce a stack trace at startup with the error message "to do setValue(i64) use WASM_BIGINT". I don't fully understand this. The stack trace comes via a JS wrapper around a WASM-compiled function called __main_argc_argv, which sounds like something in the Emscripten library startup. Somewhere in there it goes via _js_get_date_64(), which tries to write an i64 into the WASM memory array, which hits this abort in setValue(). Web searching for the error message turned up https://github.com/godotengine/godot/pull/88594 which gave me the clue that '-s WASM_BIGINT' is a command-line setting for the Emscripten linker. And indeed, setting that makes the startup-time error go away and the puzzles run again. But it also causes older versions of all browsers to be unsupported, presumably on the grounds that they don't have whatever WASM bigint feature this flag causes the code to use. I don't really understand what's going on here. I assume _js_get_date_64 is being called to handle a 64-bit time_t. But the Puzzles code doesn't work with time_t at all, so this is entirely in the Emscripten standard library. And if the pre-main() startup code needs a 64-bit integer write, which won't work without this flag, then surely _nothing_ would work without this flag, and surely someone would have noticed that, and made that flag the default? This all seems confusing and I wonder if I've misunderstood something. However, if I don't fix it in _some_ way, the web puzzles will stay out of action for days and I'll get lots of email complaints. So here's something that makes them basically work again, and maybe we can figure out the rest of the story later.
This is the README accompanying the source code to Simon Tatham's puzzle collection. The collection's web site is at <https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/puzzles/>. The puzzle collection is built using CMake <https://cmake.org/>. To compile in the simplest way (on any of Linux, Windows or Mac), run these commands in the source directory: cmake . cmake --build . The manual is provided in Windows Help format for the Windows build; in text format for anyone who needs it; and in HTML for the Mac OS X application and for the web site. It is generated from a Halibut source file (puzzles.but), which is the preferred form for modification. To generate the manual in other formats, rebuild it, or learn about Halibut, visit the Halibut website at <https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/halibut/>.