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Best way to port a C ++ game to a website

I understand that the above question is quite broad, so I will judge it. I have a simple opengl C ++ game engine that lives in a static library (can be converted to a dynamic lib).

I was thinking about how to make it work on the Internet. From what I see, I could use ActiveX or Google NaCl to run C ++ code in a browser. But these technologies do not seem easy cross platform? Or maybe I misunderstood.

Another option I've seen is to convert the engine to javascript and WebGL and work in HTML5 canvas. Will it be slower than C ++? That would be a very cross platform though.

What do you think is the best option, or better yet, is there another option that I missed?

EDIT: what about a custom plugin similar to webplayer unity?

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In fact, there are several technologies to help with this. Here are three that I came across, but with minimal / no experience:

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There is a library created by @kripken that is still under development. It accepts LLVM bit code and converts to Javascript.

Here you can see the project page with working examples. https://github.com/kripken/emscripten/

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