diff --git a/lib/index.js b/lib/index.js
index 8f7aff9..82d23e2 100644
--- a/lib/index.js
+++ b/lib/index.js
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-const wabt = require('wabt')();
+const createWabt = require('wabt');
 const util = require('util');
 
 getDecoderEncoder = () => {
@@ -14,6 +14,7 @@ getDecoderEncoder = () => {
 }
 
 module.exports = async (input, importObject) => {
+  const wabt = await createWabt(); 
   const { Decoder, Encoder } = getDecoderEncoder();
   const wasmModule = wabt.parseWat('inline', new Encoder('utf-8').encode(input));
   const { buffer } = wasmModule.toBinary({});