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70: Allow creating a surface by passing a metal layer. r=kvark a=seivan
This is useful if you're using `SDL2`
```rust
let canvas = window.into_canvas().build().unwrap();
let metal_layer = unsafe { sdl2::sys::SDL_RenderGetMetalLayer(canvas.raw()) };
let surface = instance.create_surface_with_metal_layer(metal_layer);
```
For now, Metal only - but could be useful in the future if there was a trait or a facade to use for setting up a surface. The intention is to support other window backends without depending on them directly as a dependency.
Co-authored-by: Seivan Heidari <seivan.heidari@icloud.com>
WebGPU
This is an experimental WebGPU implementation as a native static library. It's written in Rust and is based on gfx-hal and satellite libraries. The corresponding WebIDL specification can be found at gpuweb project.
The implementation consists of the following parts:
wgpu-native- the native implementation of WebGPU as a C API librarywgpu-bindings- automatic generator of actual C headerswgpu-remote- remoting layer to work with WebGPU across the process boundarywgpu-rs- idiomatic Rust wrapper of the native library
Example
To run an example, simply cd to the examples or gfx-examples directory, then use cargo run with --features {backend} to specify the backend (where {backend} is either vulkan, dx12, dx11 or metal). For example:
# Clone the wgpu repository
git clone https://github.com/gfx-rs/wgpu
# Change directory to `examples`
cd wgpu/examples
# Vulkan (Linux/Windows)
cargo run --bin hello_triangle --features vulkan
# Metal (macOS/iOS)
cargo run --bin hello_triangle --features metal
# DirectX12 (Windows)
cargo run --bin hello_triangle --features dx12
cd ../gfx-examples
# Vulkan (Linux/Windows)
cargo run --bin cube --features vulkan
# Metal (macOS/iOS)
cargo run --bin cube --features metal
# DirectX12 (Windows)
cargo run --bin cube --features dx12
These examples assume that necessary dependencies for the graphics backend are already installed. For more information about installation and usage, refer to the Getting Started guide.