Can share rough ETA for Vkd3d repo?

[oscar bg]

Hi,
I'm pretty interested in that project, namely in testing it jointly with
MoltenVK for Macos to see how well D3D12->Vulkan->Metal goes using jointly
these two translators and reporting info to MoltenVK author and possibly
providing VKD3D patches to play nicer around possible limitations in
MoltenVK..

as you I see in the "coming weeks":

We'll be hosting vkd3d, the D3D12->Vulkan library, on winehq.org in
  its own git repository

I'm asking if you can share some ETA.. would be super nice if some code can get
posted before end of year to play with it no christmas vacations..

anyway no pressure..

thanks..

[Henri Verbeet]

On 11 December 2017 at 18:27, oscar bg  wrote:
> I'm pretty interested in that project, namely in testing it jointly with
> MoltenVK for Macos to see how well D3D12->Vulkan->Metal goes using jointly
> these two translators and reporting info to MoltenVK author and possibly
> providing VKD3D patches to play nicer around possible limitations in
> MoltenVK..
>
> as you I see in the "coming weeks":
>
> We'll be hosting vkd3d, the D3D12->Vulkan library, on winehq.org in
>   its own git repository
>
> I'm asking if you can share some ETA.. would be super nice if some code can
> get
> posted before end of year to play with it no christmas vacations..

We had hoped the repository would be up by now, but unfortunately
there have been some delays. I'd like to say it will be up before the
end of the year, but can't promise that. For the time being, I've
attached the repository as a compressed mbox to this email. There are
two basic demos under demos/, but this doesn't include the
"vkmodelviewer" demo shown at WineConf. We'd like to make that
available as well for people to play with, but it's a bit too large to
attach to this email because of the included assets.

Building the project should be relatively straightforward, but there
are a few dependencies like widl, glslang and spirv-tools that you may
have to build yourself. Feel free to ask here if you need any help.

[oscar bg]

Hi Henri,
big thanks for that..
just a question: altough this code drop doesn't include the vkmodelviewer
demo because of size limitations, I'm assuming correctly that the source
code is mature enough as it was shown so that it should run that demo, if
that demo was included also?

2017-12-11 16:30 GMT+01:00 Henri Verbeet :
> On 11 December 2017 at 18:27, oscar bg  wrote:
> > I'm pretty interested in that project, namely in testing it jointly with
> > MoltenVK for Macos to see how well D3D12->Vulkan->Metal goes using
>
> jointly
> > these two translators and reporting info to MoltenVK author and possibly
> > providing VKD3D patches to play nicer around possible limitations in
> > MoltenVK..
> >
> > as you I see in the "coming weeks":
> >
> > We'll be hosting vkd3d, the D3D12->Vulkan library, on winehq.org in
> >   its own git repository
> >
> > I'm asking if you can share some ETA.. would be super nice if some code
>
> can
> > get
> > posted before end of year to play with it no christmas vacations..
>
> We had hoped the repository would be up by now, but unfortunately
> there have been some delays. I'd like to say it will be up before the
> end of the year, but can't promise that. For the time being, I've
> attached the repository as a compressed mbox to this email. There are
> two basic demos under demos/, but this doesn't include the
> "vkmodelviewer" demo shown at WineConf. We'd like to make that
> available as well for people to play with, but it's a bit too large to
> attach to this email because of the included assets.
>
> Building the project should be relatively straightforward, but there
> are a few dependencies like widl, glslang and spirv-tools that you may
> have to build yourself. Feel free to ask here if you need any help.

[Henri Verbeet]

On 11 December 2017 at 19:14, oscar bg  wrote:
> Hi Henri,
> big thanks for that..
> just a question: altough this code drop doesn't include the vkmodelviewer
> demo because of size limitations, I'm assuming correctly that the source
> code is mature enough as it was shown so that it should run that demo, if
> that demo was included also?

Sure. For what it's worth, the vkmodelviewer repository as about 38MiB
as compressed mbox.

[Henri Verbeet]

On 11 December 2017 at 19:19, Henri Verbeet  wrote:
> On 11 December 2017 at 19:14, oscar bg  wrote:
> > Hi Henri,
> > big thanks for that..
> > just a question: altough this code drop doesn't include the vkmodelviewer
> > demo because of size limitations, I'm assuming correctly that the source
> > code is mature enough as it was shown so that it should run that demo, if
> > that demo was included also?
>
> Sure. For what it's worth, the vkmodelviewer repository as about 38MiB
> as compressed mbox.

I've published the vkmodelviewer demo on repo.or.cz/vkmodelviewer.git

Note that you need an HLSL compiler to build the demo. Ideally we'd
provide such a compiler as part of the Wine project, but until that
actually happens you can use a recent version of Microsoft's fxc on
Wine using something along the lines of the attached perl script.

[Alexandre Julliard]

Henri Verbeet  writes:
> On 11 December 2017 at 18:27, oscar bg  wrote:
> > I'm pretty interested in that project, namely in testing it jointly with
> > MoltenVK for Macos to see how well D3D12->Vulkan->Metal goes using jointly
> > these two translators and reporting info to MoltenVK author and possibly
> > providing VKD3D patches to play nicer around possible limitations in
> > MoltenVK..
> >
> > as you I see in the "coming weeks":
> >
> > We'll be hosting vkd3d, the D3D12->Vulkan library, on winehq.org in
> >   its own git repository
> >
> > I'm asking if you can share some ETA.. would be super nice if some code can
> > get
> > posted before end of year to play with it no christmas vacations..
>
> We had hoped the repository would be up by now, but unfortunately
> there have been some delays.

The repository is now available at

git://source.winehq.org/git/vkd3d.git

If you make improvements, please send patches to wine-devel following the
standard WineHQ guidelines (https://wiki.winehq.org/Submitting_Patches).

[oscar bg]

Of course will do!

thanks to all..

2017-12-13 17:28 GMT+01:00 Alexandre Julliard :
> Henri Verbeet  writes:
> > On 11 December 2017 at 18:27, oscar bg  wrote:
> > > I'm pretty interested in that project, namely in testing it jointly with
> > > MoltenVK for Macos to see how well D3D12->Vulkan->Metal goes using
>
> jointly
> > > these two translators and reporting info to MoltenVK author and possibly
> > > providing VKD3D patches to play nicer around possible limitations in
> > > MoltenVK..
> > >
> > > as you I see in the "coming weeks":
> > >
> > > We'll be hosting vkd3d, the D3D12->Vulkan library, on winehq.org in
> > >   its own git repository
> > >
> > > I'm asking if you can share some ETA.. would be super nice if some code
>
> can
> > > get
> > > posted before end of year to play with it no christmas vacations..
> >
> > We had hoped the repository would be up by now, but unfortunately
> > there have been some delays.
>
> The repository is now available at
>
> git://source.winehq.org/git/vkd3d.git
>
> If you make improvements, please send patches to wine-devel following the
> standard WineHQ guidelines (https://wiki.winehq.org/Submitting_Patches).
>
> --
> Alexandre Julliard
> [e-mail]