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authorCorentin Wallez <cwallez@chromium.org>Tue Oct 08 07:38:01 2019 +0000
committerCommit Bot service account <commit-bot@chromium.org>Tue Oct 08 07:38:01 2019 +0000
treee04f852db4b827db60d6d82ab952251de31882d4
parenta83e0cdbccaa547b71230200d9d29481246bf58c [diff]
Make dawn.h closer to webgpu.h

This includes several changes to make dawn.h closer to webgpu.h (apart
from the renames and copyright changes):

 - Make nextInChain follow the same type convention as the rest of the
   header.
 - Add defines that allow skipping the procs definition or the functions
   declaration part of the header.
 - Sort the methods by name for each object.
 - Put the callback definition inside extern "C"
 - Make the enums typedef have the name of the enum twice.

BUG=dawn:22

Change-Id: I36e4587d60ca43886636ebd19d54752004f4696d
Reviewed-on: https://dawn-review.googlesource.com/c/dawn/+/11903
Reviewed-by: Austin Eng <enga@chromium.org>
Reviewed-by: Kai Ninomiya <kainino@chromium.org>
Commit-Queue: Corentin Wallez <cwallez@chromium.org>
3 files changed
tree: e04f852db4b827db60d6d82ab952251de31882d4
  1. build_overrides/
  2. docs/
  3. examples/
  4. generator/
  5. infra/
  6. scripts/
  7. src/
  8. third_party/
  9. .clang-format
  10. .gitattributes
  11. .gitignore
  12. .gn
  13. AUTHORS
  14. BUILD.gn
  15. codereview.settings
  16. CONTRIBUTING.md
  17. dawn.json
  18. dawn_wire.json
  19. DEPS
  20. LICENSE
  21. OWNERS
  22. PRESUBMIT.py
  23. README.chromium
  24. README.md
README.md

Dawn, a WebGPU implementation

Dawn (formerly NXT) is an open-source and cross-platform implementation of the work-in-progress WebGPU standard. It exposes a C/C++ API that maps almost one-to-one to the WebGPU IDL and can be managed as part of a larger system such as a Web browser.

Dawn provides several WebGPU building blocks:

  • WebGPU C/C++ headers that applications and other building blocks use.
  • A “native” implementation of WebGPU using platforms' GPU APIs:
    • D3D12 on Windows 10
    • Metal on OSX (and eventually iOS)
    • Vulkan on Windows, Linux (eventually ChromeOS and Android too)
    • OpenGL as best effort where available
  • A client-server implementation of WebGPU for applications that are in a sandbox without access to native drivers

Directory structure

  • dawn.json: description of the API used to drive code generators.
  • examples: examples showing how Dawn is used.
  • generator: code generator for files produces from dawn.json
    • templates: Jinja2 templates for the generator
  • scripts: scripts to support things like continuous testing, build files, etc.
  • src:
    • common: helper code shared between core Dawn libraries and tests/samples
    • dawn_native: native implementation of WebGPU, one subfolder per backend
    • dawn_wire: client-server implementation of WebGPU
    • include: public headers for Dawn
    • tests: internal Dawn tests
      • end2end: WebGPU tests performing GPU operations
      • unittests: unittests and by extension tests not using the GPU
        • validation: WebGPU validation tests not using the GPU (frontend tests)
    • utils: helper code to use Dawn used by tests and samples
  • third_party: directory where dependencies live as well as their buildfiles.

Building Dawn

Dawn uses the Chromium build system and dependency management so you need to install depot_tools and add it to the PATH.

On Linux you need to have the pkg-config command:

# Install pkg-config on Ubuntu
sudo apt-get install pkg-config

Then get the source as follows:

# Clone the repo as "dawn"
git clone https://dawn.googlesource.com/dawn dawn && cd dawn

# Bootstrap the gclient configuration
cp scripts/standalone.gclient .gclient

# Fetch external dependencies and toolchains with gclient
gclient sync

Then generate build files using gn args out/Debug or gn args out/Release. A text editor will appear asking build options, the most common option is is_debug=true/false; otherwise gn args out/Release --list shows all the possible options.

Then use ninja -C out/Release to build dawn and for example ./out/Release/dawn_end2end_tests to run the tests.

Contributing

Please read and follow CONTRIBUTING.md. Dawn doesn‘t have a formal coding style yet, except what’s defined by our clang format style. Overall try to use the same style and convention as code around your change.

If you find issues with Dawn, please feel free to report them on the bug tracker. For other discussions, please post to Dawn's mailing list.

License

Please see LICENSE.

Disclaimer

This is not an officially supported Google product.