Ray Tracing

[cheako]

Any interest?

[coffeenotfound]

This crate seems pretty dead (last updated 3 years ago).
But if you're doing raytracing you might aswell compile spir-v shaders properly either at compile time or runtime with something like the shaderc Rust bindings

[cheako]

I couldn't figure out how to use shaderc at compile time.

[JakubKoralewski]

I couldn't figure out how to use shaderc at compile time.

I guess you can put the shader compilation inside build.rs?

[cheako]

@JakubKoralewski Why yes and alternatively build.rs can call a command line compiler. Neither solution addresses the same problems this crate does.
For example how does that inline glsl? With that solution the glsl would either be in build.rs or in separate files. It's not obvious how to have build.rs parse glsl out of *.rs source files.

[JakubKoralewski]

It's not obvious how to have build.rs parse glsl out of *.rs source files.

I don't understand what you mean by that.

For example how does that inline glsl? With that solution the glsl would either be in build.rs or in separate files.

You can look at this example of mine. I precompile all the .spv shaders in the shaders directory and save them with the added .spv extension.

In actual application code I use the include_bytes! macro like here, which will inline the bytes into the compiled binary.

Is that what you meant?

[cheako]

"Inline" rust code and glsl existing in a single file. That's what this crate does and the solution it offers that others don't.

[cheako]

Hence: I couldn't figure out how to use shaderc at compile time. At runtime shaderc is the obvious solution.