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# HLSLcc
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DirectX shader bytecode cross compiler.
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Originally based on https://github.com/James-Jones/HLSLCrossCompiler.
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This library takes DirectX bytecode as input, and translates it into the following languages:
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- GLSL (OpenGL 3.2 and later)
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- GLSL ES (OpenGL ES 3.0 and later)
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- GLSL for Vulkan consumption (as input for Glslang to generate SPIR-V)
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- Metal Shading Language
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This library is used to generate all shaders in Unity for OpenGL, OpenGL ES 3.0+, Metal and Vulkan.
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Changes from original HLSLCrossCompiler:
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- Codebase changed to C++11, with major code reorganizations.
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- Support for multiple language output backends (currently ToGLSL and ToMetal)
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- Metal language output support
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- Temp register type analysis: In DX bytecode the registers are typeless 32-bit 4-vectors. We do code analysis to infer the actual data types (to prevent the need for tons of bitcasts).
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- Loop transformation: Detect constructs that look like for-loops and transform them back to their original form
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- Support for partial precision variables in HLSL (min16float etc). Do extra analysis pass to infer the intended precision of samplers.
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- Reflection interface to retrieve the shader inputs and their types.
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- Lots of workarounds for various driver/shader compiler bugs.
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- Lots of minor fixes and improvements for correctness
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- Lots of Unity-specific tweaks to allow extending HLSL without having to change the D3D compiler itself.
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## Note
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This project does not include build files, or test suite, as they are integrated into the Unity build systems. However, building this library should be fairly straightforward: just compile `src/*.cpp` (in C++11 mode!) and `src/cbstring/*.c` with the following include paths:
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- include
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- src/internal_includes
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- src/cbstrinc
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- src
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The main entry point is TranslateHLSLFromMem() function in HLSLcc.cpp (taking DX bytecode as input).
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## Contributors
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- Mikko Strandborg
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- Juho Oravainen
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- David Rogers
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- Marton Ekler
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- Antti Tapaninen
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- Florian Penzkofer
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- Alexey Orlov
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- Povilas Kanapickas
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## License
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See license.txt.
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