Slang Glslang Generated

This directory holds files that are generated that are needed to build glslang. The github repository that holds slangs current version of glslang is

https://github.com/shader-slang/glslang

Building glslang depends on the submodules

• external/spirv-headers
• external/spirv-tools

The following are not submodules files, and are produces elsewhere and placed in the slang project.

• external/spirv-tools-generated
• external/glslang-generated

Updating glslang

On Linux, you can run the external/bump-glslang.sh script.

On any platform, you can follow the below instructions:

To get the latest version of one of the submodules you can use

% git pull origin master

Make sure you have compatible versions of 'external/spirv-header', 'external/spirv-tools' and 'glslang' before you start!

In the context of Slang we build glslang as a Slang specific shared library/dll. The library is built from a project created by the regular Slang premake. That process is discussed later as there are a bunch of other steps that need to be completed before we can create the Slang glslang project and build it.

First we need to create the build_info.h file in glslang. We can do this from the command line via (assuming we are in the Slang root directory).

% cd external/glslang
% python build_info.py . -i build_info.h.tmpl -o ../glslang-generated/glslang/build_info.h

The glslang project is dependent on 'spirv-tools', so the next step is to set them up. How to do this is described in the README.md file in the external/spirv-tools-generated folder.

Creating and building the Slang glslang project

In normal operation premake5.lua does not build glslang because it is a slow process, so it must be specified explicitly on the command line for premake.

For Visual Studio

% premake vs2015 --build-glslang=true

For gcc or clang (add -cc=clang)

% premake gmake2 --build-glslang=true

Then just build Slang as usual in visual studio, or from the linux command line for example

% make config=release_x64
% make config=release_x86