EGeggy·Sep 8, 2022Submission
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mach
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hexops / mach
mach
zig game engine & graphics toolkit - mirror of https://code.hexops.com/hexops/mach
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3 sourcesIn case you've ever wanted an opportunity to learn Zig and WebGPU, we have Zig bindings to Dawn (the Chrome implementation) with a fair amount of examples in Zig[0] - also working on getting WebAssembly support going right now.
Can be a bit easier than trying it out in-browser (works on Linux, etc.)
I'm shamelessly posting here because we're looking for folks[1] to contribute by porting more webgpu examples over to Zig :) Can be a fun way to get started with both, though.
[0] https://machengine.org/gpu/
[1] https://github.com/hexops/mach/issues/230
In Get started with GPU Compute on the webHi Stephen,
The initial example works for me. Truly impressive packaging you've achieved.
I tried to build for musl, but it still links with glibc; is musl supported, or am I doing it wrong?
motiejus ~/code/mach/gpu $ zig build -Dtarget=x86_64-linux-musl
motiejus ~/code/mach/gpu $ ldd zig-out/bin/gpu-hello-triangle
linux-vdso.so.1 (0x00007fff573a3000)
libX11.so.6 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libX11.so.6 (0x00007f188c836000)
libm.so.6 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libm.so.6 (0x00007f188c6f2000)
libpthread.so.0 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpthread.so.0 (0x00007f188c6d0000)
libc.so.6 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6 (0x00007f188c50b000)
libdl.so.2 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libdl.so.2 (0x00007f188c505000)
/lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 (0x00007f188c9a7000)
libxcb.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-li
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nux-gnu/libxcb.so.1 (0x00007f188c4da000)
libXau.so.6 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libXau.so.6 (0x00007f188c4d3000)
libXdmcp.so.6 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libXdmcp.so.6 (0x00007f188c2cd000)
libbsd.so.0 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libbsd.so.0 (0x00007f188c2b6000)
libmd.so.0 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libmd.so.0 (0x00007f188c2a9000)
Also, I wasn't able to cross-compile to aarch64, because it does not seem to recognize `-Ddawn-from-source=true`, and I wasn't able to figure out where to put the `Options.from_source = true`:
motiejus ~/code/mach/gpu $ zig build -Ddawn-from-source=true -Dtarget=aarch64-linux-musl
error: gpu-dawn binaries for aarch64-linux.3.16...5.10.81-gnu.2.19 not available.
error: -> open an issue: https://github.com/hexops/mach/issues
error: -> build from source (takes 5-15 minutes):
error: use -Ddawn-from-source=true or set `Options.from_source = true`
error: the following build command failed with exit code 1:
/home/motiejus/code/mach/gpu/zig-cache/o/a1cea9683aaa7b7e7a533b8f6e40e10f/build /home/motiejus/code/zig-linux-x86_64-0.10.0-dev.896+e620b692c/zig /home/motiejus/code/mach/gpu /home/motiejus/code/mach/gpu/zig-cache /home/motiejus/.cache/zig -Ddawn-from-source=true -Dtarget=aarch64-linux-musl
motiejus ~/code/mach/gpu $