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8 The SPIR-V Tools project provides an API and commands for processing SPIR-V
11 The project includes an assembler, binary module parser, disassembler,
12 validator, and optimizer for SPIR-V. Except for the optimizer, all are based
13 on a common static library. The library contains all of the implementation
14 details, and is used in the standalone tools whilst also enabling integration
15 into other code bases directly. The optimizer implementation resides in its
16 own library, which depends on the core library.
18 The interfaces are still under development, and are expected to change.
20 SPIR-V is defined by the Khronos Group Inc.
21 See the [SPIR-V Registry][spirv-registry] for the SPIR-V specification,
22 headers, and XML registry.
24 ## Verisoning SPIRV-Tools
26 See [`CHANGES`](CHANGES) for a high level summary of recent changes, by version.
28 SPIRV-Tools project version numbers are of the form `v`*year*`.`*index* and with
29 an optional `-dev` suffix to indicate work in progress. For exampe, the
30 following versions are ordered from oldest to newest:
38 Use the `--version` option on each command line tool to see the software
39 version. An API call reports the software version as a C-style string.
43 ### Assembler, binary parser, and disassembler
45 * Based on SPIR-V version 1.1 Rev 3
46 * Support for extended instruction sets:
47 * GLSL std450 version 1.0 Rev 3
48 * OpenCL version 1.0 Rev 2
49 * Support for SPIR-V 1.0 (with or without additional restrictions from Vulkan 1.0)
50 * Assembler only does basic syntax checking. No cross validation of
51 IDs or types is performed, except to check literal arguments to
52 `OpConstant`, `OpSpecConstant`, and `OpSwitch`.
54 See [`syntax.md`](syntax.md) for the assembly language syntax.
58 *Warning:* The validator is incomplete.
62 *Warning:* The optimizer is still under development.
64 Currently supported optimizations:
66 * Set spec constant default value
67 * Freeze spec constant
68 * Fold `OpSpecConstantOp` and `OpSpecConstantComposite`
70 * Eliminate dead constant
72 For the latest list with detailed documentation, please refer to
73 [`include/spirv-tools/optimizer.hpp`](include/spirv-tools/optimizer.hpp).
77 The SPIR-V Tools are maintained by members of the The Khronos Group Inc.,
78 at https://github.com/KhronosGroup/SPIRV-Tools.
80 Contributions via merge request are welcome. Changes should:
81 * Be provided under the [Apache 2.0](#license).
82 You'll be prompted with a one-time "click-through" Contributor's License
83 Agreement (CLA) dialog as part of submitting your pull request or
84 other contribution to GitHub.
85 * Include tests to cover updated functionality.
86 * C++ code should follow the [Google C++ Style Guide][cpp-style-guide].
87 * Code should be formatted with `clang-format`. Settings are defined by
88 the included [.clang-format](.clang-format) file.
90 We intend to maintain a linear history on the GitHub `master` branch.
92 ### Source code organization
94 * `example`: demo code of using SPIRV-Tools APIs
95 * `external/googletest`: Intended location for the
96 [googletest][googletest] sources, not provided
97 * `include/`: API clients should add this directory to the include search path
98 * `external/spirv-headers`: Intended location for
99 [SPIR-V headers][spirv-headers], not provided
100 * `include/spirv-tools/libspirv.h`: C API public interface
101 * `source/`: API implementation
102 * `test/`: Tests, using the [googletest][googletest] framework
103 * `tools/`: Command line executables
107 The project contains a number of tests, used to drive development
108 and ensure correctness. The tests are written using the
109 [googletest][googletest] framework. The `googletest`
110 source is not provided with this project. There are two ways to enable
112 * If SPIR-V Tools is configured as part of an enclosing project, then the
113 enclosing project should configure `googletest` before configuring SPIR-V Tools.
114 * If SPIR-V Tools is configured as a standalone project, then download the
115 `googletest` source into the `<spirv-dir>/external/googletest` directory before
116 configuring and building the project.
118 *Note*: You must use a version of googletest that includes
119 [a fix][googletest-pull-612] for [googletest issue 610][googletest-issue-610].
120 The fix is included on the googletest master branch any time after 2015-11-10.
121 In particular, googletest must be newer than version 1.7.0.
125 The project uses [CMake][cmake] to generate platform-specific build
126 configurations. Assume that `<spirv-dir>` is the root directory of the checked
131 git clone https://github.com/KhronosGroup/SPIRV-Headers.git external/spirv-headers
132 git clone https://github.com/google/googletest.git external/googletest # optional
134 mkdir build && cd build
135 cmake [-G <platform-generator>] <spirv-dir>
138 Once the build files have been generated, build using your preferred
139 development environment.
143 The following CMake options are supported:
145 * `SPIRV_COLOR_TERMINAL={ON|OFF}`, default `ON` - Enables color console output.
146 * `SPIRV_SKIP_TESTS={ON|OFF}`, default `OFF`- Build only the library and
147 the command line tools. This will prevent the tests from being built.
148 * `SPIRV_SKIP_EXECUTABLES={ON|OFF}`, default `OFF`- Build only the library, not
149 the command line tools and tests.
150 * `SPIRV_USE_SANITIZER=<sanitizer>`, default is no sanitizing - On UNIX
151 platforms with an appropriate version of `clang` this option enables the use
152 of the sanitizers documented [here][clang-sanitizers].
153 This should only be used with a debug build.
154 * `SPIRV_WARN_EVERYTHING={ON|OFF}`, default `OFF` - On UNIX platforms enable
155 more strict warnings. The code might not compile with this option enabled.
156 For Clang, enables `-Weverything`. For GCC, enables `-Wpedantic`.
157 See [`CMakeLists.txt`](CMakeLists.txt) for details.
158 * `SPIRV_WERROR={ON|OFF}`, default `ON` - Forces a compilation error on any
159 warnings encountered by enabling the compiler-specific compiler front-end
166 The internals of the library use C++11 features, and are exposed via both a C
169 In order to use the library from an application, the include path should point
170 to `<spirv-dir>/include`, which will enable the application to include the
171 header `<spirv-dir>/include/spirv-tools/libspirv.h{|pp}` then linking against
172 the static library in `<spirv-build-dir>/source/libSPIRV-Tools.a` or
173 `<spirv-build-dir>/source/SPIRV-Tools.lib`.
174 For optimization, the header file is
175 `<spirv-dir>/include/spirv-tools/optimizer.hpp`, and the static library is
176 `<spirv-build-dir>/source/libSPIRV-Tools-opt.a` or
177 `<spirv-build-dir>/source/SPIRV-Tools-opt.lib`.
179 * `SPIRV-Tools` CMake target: Creates the static library:
180 * `<spirv-build-dir>/source/libSPIRV-Tools.a` on Linux and OS X.
181 * `<spirv-build-dir>/source/libSPIRV-Tools.lib` on Windows.
182 * `SPIRV-Tools-opt` CMake target: Creates the static library:
183 * `<spirv-build-dir>/source/libSPIRV-Tools-opt.a` on Linux and OS X.
184 * `<spirv-build-dir>/source/libSPIRV-Tools-opt.lib` on Windows.
188 The interfaces are still under development, and are expected to change.
190 There are five main entry points into the library in the C interface:
192 * `spvTextToBinary`: An assembler, translating text to a binary SPIR-V module.
193 * `spvBinaryToText`: A disassembler, translating a binary SPIR-V module to
195 * `spvBinaryParse`: The entry point to a binary parser API. It issues callbacks
196 for the header and each parsed instruction. The disassembler is implemented
197 as a client of `spvBinaryParse`.
198 * `spvValidate` implements the validator functionality. *Incomplete*
199 * `spvValidateBinary` implements the validator functionality. *Incomplete*
201 The C++ interface is comprised of two classes, `SpirvTools` and `Optimizer`,
202 both in the `spvtools` namespace.
203 * `SpirvTools` provides `Assemble`, `Disassemble`, and `Validate` methods.
204 * `Optimizer` provides methods for registering and running optimization passes.
206 ## Command line tools
208 Command line tools, which wrap the above library functions, are provided to
209 assemble or disassemble shader files. It's a convention to name SPIR-V
210 assembly and binary files with suffix `.spvasm` and `.spv`, respectively.
214 The assembler reads the assembly language text, and emits the binary form.
216 The standalone assembler is the exectuable called `spirv-as`, and is located in
217 `<spirv-build-dir>/tools/spirv-as`. The functionality of the assembler is implemented
218 by the `spvTextToBinary` library function.
220 * `spirv-as` - the standalone assembler
221 * `<spirv-dir>/tools/as`
223 Use option `-h` to print help.
225 ### Disassembler tool
227 The disassembler reads the binary form, and emits assembly language text.
229 The standalone disassembler is the executable called `spirv-dis`, and is located in
230 `<spirv-build-dir>/tools/spirv-dis`. The functionality of the disassembler is implemented
231 by the `spvBinaryToText` library function.
233 * `spirv-dis` - the standalone disassembler
234 * `<spirv-dir>/tools/dis`
236 Use option `-h` to print help.
238 The output includes syntax colouring when printing to the standard output stream,
239 on Linux, Windows, and OS X.
243 The optimizer processes a SPIR-V binary module, applying transformations
244 in the specified order.
246 This is a work in progress, with initially only few available transformations.
248 * `spirv-opt` - the standalone optimizer
249 * `<spirv-dir>/tools/opt`
253 *Warning:* This functionality is under development, and is incomplete.
255 The standalone validator is the executable called `spirv-val`, and is located in
256 `<spirv-build-dir>/tools/spirv-val`. The functionality of the validator is implemented
257 by the `spvValidate` library function.
259 The validator operates on the binary form.
261 * `spirv-val` - the standalone validator
262 * `<spirv-dir>/tools/val`
264 ### Control flow dumper tool
266 The control flow dumper prints the control flow graph for a SPIR-V module as a
267 [GraphViz](http://www.graphviz.org/) graph.
269 This is experimental.
271 * `spirv-cfg` - the control flow graph dumper
272 * `<spirv-dir>/tools/cfg`
276 * `spirv-lesspipe.sh` - Automatically disassembles `.spv` binary files for the
277 `less` program, on compatible systems. For example, set the `LESSOPEN`
278 environment variable as follows, assuming both `spirv-lesspipe.sh` and
279 `spirv-dis` are on your executable search path:
281 export LESSOPEN='| spirv-lesspipe.sh "%s"'
283 Then you page through a disassembled module as follows:
287 * The `spirv-lesspipe.sh` script will pass through any extra arguments to
288 `spirv-dis`. So, for example, you can turn off colours and friendly ID
291 export LESSOPEN='| spirv-lesspipe.sh "%s" --no-color --raw-id'
294 * `50spirv-tools.el` - Automatically disassembles '.spv' binary files when
295 loaded into the emacs text editor, and re-assembles them when saved,
296 provided any modifications to the file are valid. This functionality
297 must be explicitly requested by defining the symbol
298 SPIRV_TOOLS_INSTALL_EMACS_HELPERS as follows:
300 cmake -DSPIRV_TOOLS_INSTALL_EMACS_HELPERS=true ...
303 In addition, this helper is only installed if the directory /etc/emacs/site-start.d
304 exists, which is typically true if emacs is installed on the system.
306 Note that symbol IDs are not currently preserved through a load/edit/save operation.
307 This may change if the ability is added to spirv-as.
312 Tests are only built when googletest is found. Use `ctest` to run all the
316 <a name="future"></a>
318 ### Assembler and disassembler
320 * The disassembler could emit helpful annotations in comments. For example:
321 * Use variable name information from debug instructions to annotate
322 key operations on variables.
323 * Show control flow information by annotating `OpLabel` instructions with
324 that basic block's predecessors.
325 * Error messages could be improved.
329 This is a work in progress.
332 <a name="license"></a>
333 Full license terms are in [LICENSE](LICENSE)
335 Copyright (c) 2015-2016 The Khronos Group Inc.
337 Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
338 you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
339 You may obtain a copy of the License at
341 http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
343 Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
344 distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
345 WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
346 See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
347 limitations under the License.
350 [spirv-registry]: https://www.khronos.org/registry/spir-v/
351 [spirv-headers]: https://github.com/KhronosGroup/SPIRV-Headers
352 [googletest]: https://github.com/google/googletest
353 [googletest-pull-612]: https://github.com/google/googletest/pull/612
354 [googletest-issue-610]: https://github.com/google/googletest/issues/610
355 [CMake]: https://cmake.org/
356 [cpp-style-guide]: https://google.github.io/styleguide/cppguide.html
357 [clang-sanitizers]: http://clang.llvm.org/docs/UsersManual.html#controlling-code-generation