Build: $ emconfigure ./configure --host=asmjs-unknown-emscripten --disable-assembly --disable-threads --enable-cpuinfo=false CFLAGS="-O2" $ emmake make Or with cmake: $ emconfigure cmake .. $ make To build one of the tests: $ cd test/ $ emcc -O2 --js-opts 0 -g4 testdraw2.c -I../include ../build/.libs/libSDL2.a ../build/libSDL2_test.a -o a.html Uses GLES2 renderer or software tests: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/17360362/SDL2-em/index.html Some other SDL2 libraries can be easily built (assuming SDL2 is installed somewhere): SDL_mixer (http://www.libsdl.org/projects/SDL_mixer/) $ EMCONFIGURE_JS=1 emconfigure ../configure build as usual... SDL_gfx (http://cms.ferzkopp.net/index.php/software/13-sdl-gfx): $ EMCONFIGURE_JS=1 emconfigure ../configure --disable-mmx build as usual...