Is there a way to compile shaders with a local sokol-shdc executable?

[floooh]

Hi @kassane, quick question:

Is there a way to run dub build -c genshaders with a locally built sokol-shdc?

In Zig I can simply override the dependency via zig fetch --save=shdc ../sokol-tools-bin, and in the other bindings I have started to modify the compile-shaders.sh helper script to take the path to a sokol-shdc exe as cmdline arg (e.g.: https://github.com/floooh/sokol-odin/blob/issue1252/resource_views/build_shaders.sh).

I'm now trying to rebuild the sokol-d shaders with a locally modified sokol-shdc, any advice how to do that?

[kassane]

Is there a way to run dub build -c genshaders with a locally built sokol-shdc?

Of course! Sadly, it only Works in samples project. To add user projects support, need implement a command interface in build.d.

https://github.com/kassane/sokol-d/blob/280ed306bb37cb61d1ff4f436dc50e04f70f9a8f/build.d#L221-L229

In Zig I can simply override the dependency via zig fetch --save=shdc ../sokol-tools-bin, and in the other bindings [...]

Currently, build.d will always download shdc artifact from master branch.

https://github.com/kassane/sokol-d/blob/280ed306bb37cb61d1ff4f436dc50e04f70f9a8f/build.d#L734-L759

[kassane]

I have started to modify the compile-shaders.sh helper script to take the path to a sokol-shdc exe as cmdline arg (e.g.: https://github.com/floooh/sokol-odin/blob/issue1252/resource_views/build_shaders.sh).

If you want to avoid build.d and link the script you could create/modify the configuration to run it.

Note

It can be seen that by default the dub tries to generate an artifact that is later deleted during post-execution.

https://github.com/kassane/sokol-d/blob/280ed306bb37cb61d1ff4f436dc50e04f70f9a8f/dub.json#L1136-L1153