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Say something about Emscripten's C/C++ system libraries because "Emscripten itself is written in Python and JavaScript so it does not need to be compiled" is completely true but potentially confusing.
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top level of the repository takes care of running these steps and ``emcc`` will
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error out if it detects that ``bootstrap`` needs to be run.
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Emscripten comes with its own versions some C/C++ system libaries which ``emcc``
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builds automatically as and when needed (In the emsdk builds, these are precompiled).
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In addition to the main emscripten repository you will also need to checkout
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and build LLVM and Binaryen (as detailed below). After compiling these, you
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will need to edit your ``.emscripten`` file to point to their corresponding

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