Description
std::fs::canonicalize() is not implemented for WASI, but I can't see any show-stopping reason why it couldn't be (maybe pre-opens complicate it?). I ran into this when attempting to compile rustfmt for WASI.
I found a couple of related issues:
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#82339 - suggests using the Prefix part of paths (like C:) for pre-opens.
@RReverser said
Another reason I'm asking is that I want to implement Path::canonicalize on WASI because it frequently comes up during cross-compilation, and then fails at runtime - turns out, a lot of crates use it to translate relative paths to absolute ones.
This is exactly the situation I ran into. I'll also note that this was quite annoying to debug since the error message in its entirety was operation not supported on this platform, you can't use RUST_BACKTRACE, rustfmt doesn't have extensive logging, and I don't fancy setting up WASM debugging. I resorted to tedious printf debugging. (Side rant: for all the emphasis Rust puts on compiler error messages its runtime error messages are usually quite terrible!)
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This issue in Rollup where they ran into the same problem and have a simple implementation we could maybe use.