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# Naga
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[](https://crates.io/crates/naga)
[](https://docs.rs/naga)
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[](https://codecov.io/gh/gfx-rs/naga)
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The shader translation library for the needs of [wgpu ](https://github.com/gfx-rs/wgpu ) and [gfx-rs ](https://github.com/gfx-rs/gfx ) projects.
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## Supported end-points
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Everything is still work-in-progress, but some end-points are usable:
Front-end | Status | Feature | Notes |
--------------- | ------------------ | ------- | ----- |
SPIR-V (binary) | :white_check_mark: | spv-in | |
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WGSL | :white_check_mark: | wgsl-in | Fully validated |
GLSL | :construction: | glsl-in | Temporarily broken |
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Back-end | Status | Feature | Notes |
--------------- | ------------------ | -------- | ----- |
SPIR-V | :white_check_mark: | spv-out | |
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WGSL | :construction: | wgsl-out | |
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Metal | :white_check_mark: | msl-out | |
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HLSL | :construction: | hlsl-out | Shader Model 5.0+ (DirectX 11+) |
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GLSL | :ok: | glsl-out | |
AIR | | | |
DXIL/DXIR | | | |
DXBC | | | |
DOT (GraphViz) | :ok: | dot-out | Not a shading language |
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:white_check_mark: = Primary support — :ok: = Secondary support — :construction: = Unsupported, but support in progress
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## Conversion tool
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Naga includes a default binary target, which allows to test the conversion of different code paths.
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```bash
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cargo run --features wgsl-in -- my_shader.wgsl # validate only
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cargo run --features spv-in -- my_shader.spv my_shader.txt # dump the IR module into a file
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cargo run --features spv-in,msl-out -- my_shader.spv my_shader.metal --flow-dir flow-dir # convert the SPV to Metal, also dump the SPIR-V flow graph to `flow-dir`
cargo run --features wgsl-in,glsl-out -- my_shader.wgsl my_shader.vert --profile es310 # convert the WGSL to GLSL vertex stage under ES 3.20 profile
```
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## Development workflow
The main instrument aiding the development is the good old `cargo test --all-features` ,
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which will run the unit tests, and also update all the snapshots. You'll see these
changes in git before committing the code.
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If working on a particular front-end or back-end, it may be convenient to
enable the relevant features in `Cargo.toml` , e.g.
```toml
default = ["spv-out"] #TEMP !
```
This allows IDE basic checks to report errors there, unless your IDE is sufficiently configurable already.
Finally, when changes to the snapshots are made, we should verify that the produced shaders
are indeed valid for the target platforms they are compiled for. We automate this with `Makefile` :
```bash
make validate-spv # for Vulkan shaders, requires SPIRV-Tools installed
make validate-msl # for Metal shaders, requires XCode command-line tools installed
make validate-glsl # for OpenGL shaders, requires GLSLang installed
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make validate-dot # for dot files, requires GraphViz installed
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make validate-wgsl # for WGSL shaders
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make validate-hlsl # for HLSL shaders. Note: this Make target makes use of the "sh" shell. This is not the default shell in Windows.
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```
