mach/gpu-dawn/README.md

mach/gpu-dawn, WebGPU/Dawn built with Zig

mach/gpu-dawn builds Dawn (Google's WebGPU implementation), requiring nothing more than zig and git to build and cross-compile static Dawn libraries for every OS.

• No cmake
• No ninja
• No gn
• No system dependencies (xcode, etc.)
• Cross compilation supported out of the box
• Builds a single static libdawn.a with everything you need.

This repository is a separate copy of the same library in the main Mach repository, and is automatically kept in sync, so that anyone can use this library in their own project / engine if they like!

Warning: Under heavy development!

This package is still under heavy development, Linux and macOS are working but Windows is not yet.

Zig Dawn/WebGPU interface

This package implements the the mach/gpu Zig interface which, for Zig developers, allows swapping between WebGPU implementations seamlessly similar to the std.mem.Allocator interface.

Generated code

Dawn itself relies on a fairly large amount of dependencies, generated code, etc. To avoid having any dependency on Google build tools, code generation, etc. we maintain a minor fork of Dawn which has generated code and third-party dependencies comitted.