Getting started guide with Emscripten on an Amazon EC2 instance

You may find yourself in my same circumstance - wanting to try out Emscripten but not having an available linux box to install and run everything you need. So the shortcut to setting up a linux box is to use a cloud linux box. It's also a great opportunity to get more familar with amazon services. So to do this there are a lot of steps, that I've boiled down into different blog posts. This is the high level blog post which if you follow all of these steps you'll be up and running emscripten in short order.

Getting started using Emscripten

1) Launch a new Amazon Linux ami instance. 

http://faantasticcoder.blogspot.com/2013/05/creating-amazon-linux-ami-for-emscripten.html

2) Setup an Amazon EC2 machine to compile Emscripten

http://faantasticcoder.blogspot.com/2013/05/setting-up-amazon-ec2-machine-to.html

3) Get setup to write code for Emscripten on an Amazon EC2 machine

http://faantasticcoder.blogspot.com/2013/05/setting-up-to-write-code-for-emscripten.html