TL;DR if you want to use this to get your Wasm project to compile:

source-repository-package
  type: git
  location: https://github.com/haskell-wasm/network
  tag: ab92e48e9fdf3abe214f85fdbe5301c1280e14e9

(This is pointing to a branch where the configure script has been checked in.)

This PR adds a bunch of CPP in order to build with the GHC Wasm backend. However, nothing here is actually really Wasm-specific (e.g. the diff doesn't mention Wasm); in principle, there could be other platforms that are also missing certain network functionality similar to Wasm.

This PR probably shouldn't be merged as is; it probably makes sense to wait at least until the Wasm backend updates to WASI preview2 which seems to support more networking stuff.

For a simple example how networking stuff works with Wasm today, see https://gist.github.com/amesgen/8b7d6dc672e7818d951142afa1263dde for a simple echo server example, which can be run via

wasmtime run -S preview2=n -S tcplisten=127.0.0.1:12345 /path/to/wasi-echo-server.wasm

and interacted with via e.g. nc 127.0.0.1 12345.

However, usually, network is just an accidental dependency in projects that don't actually do any networking stuff (e.g. because they depend on streaming-commons somehow). Still, it is useful to have something that compiles on Wasm as one has to patch fewer dependencies this way.