On 27 November 2015 at 18:37, Jason Ekstrand <ja...@jlekstrand.net> wrote: > > On Nov 27, 2015 10:16 AM, "Emil Velikov" <emil.l.veli...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> On 27 November 2015 at 17:54, Jason Ekstrand <ja...@jlekstrand.net> wrote: >> > >> > On Nov 25, 2015 1:27 PM, "Emil Velikov" <emil.l.veli...@gmail.com> >> > wrote: >> >> >> >> Hello all, >> >> >> >> Some of us have been thinking about moving nir out of glsl, and >> >> fleshing >> >> out some common helper (static library) that is use by both. So here it >> >> is - src/compiler. >> >> >> >> The modules (libcompiler, libnir and libglsl) are unfortunately not >> >> really independent. >> >> - libcompiler - compile time (mesa ir, glsl ir, util), link - util >> >> - libglsl - compile (compiler, mesa ir, util), link - compiler, util >> >> - libnir - compile (compiler, mesa ir, glsl ir, util), link - >> >> compiler, >> >> util >> > >> > Thanks for working on this! Before I make comments, its worth noting >> > that >> > the biggest churn is just moving files. If we don't have the linking >> > details figured out, that shouldn't block landing the file churn. >> > >> > I was kind of hoping that we could have a libnir that doesn't require >> > glsl. >> > It would be good for freedreno and vc4 among other things. Maybe split >> > things up differently? >> > >> One of us is getting confused here. >> >> NIR does _not_ depend during link time on glsl and vice-versa (as per >> above list). > > OK, that wasn't clear. Where does glsl_to_nir go then? Does it not > actually need to link against libglsl? I could believe it but it does have > to link against NIR. > Suggestions on how to make it clearer are appreciated :-)
glsl_to_nir is stored as currently - in NIR. Things just work out fine as [I'm leaning that] the linker just removes the file where it's not needed. And with it the glsl link time dependency. >> To remove the compile-time dependency, I've spent a fair bit of time >> trying to flesh things out. Yet that's not possible without rewriting >> substantial hunks of glsl, nir and mesa. > > That's fine. I know that's a lot of work so don't worry about it for now. > I had no idea and things started exploding rather badly quite quick when I gave it a try. -Emil _______________________________________________ mesa-dev mailing list mesa-dev@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/mesa-dev
