Master Thesis: Cross-Compiling Shading Languages

Release of the Master Thesis "Cross-Compiling Shading Languages" by Lukas Hermanns. This topic is related to the XShaderCompiler project.

UPDATE (22 Oct 2017):
Added bibtex file masterthesis_ccsl_lhermanns.bib

XShaderCompiler 0.10 Alpha

Pre-release for testing purposes. Do not use for production!

News:

• Further improvements in type deduction for intrinsic calls.
• Translation of matrix subscripts.
• Better translation of anonymous structs.
• Added optional language extensions (see -X shell command).
• Refactored constant expression evaluation.
• Refactored ASTPrinter (see --show-ast shell command).
• Extended type system for enhanced error reports.
• Integrated SPIR-V disassembler (see -dasm and -dasmx shell commands).
• Started with GLSL parser (experimental).

XShaderCompiler 0.09 Alpha

Pre-release for testing purposes. Do not use for production!

News:

• Type conversion for specific semantics (e.g. uint SV_VertexID vs int gl_VertexID).
• Translation of entry-point return statements with type cast.
• Improvements for HLSL3 input shader version.
• Added Cg and HLSL6 as input shader versions.
• Refactored translation of structure inheritance.
• Refactored pre-processor.
• Lots of bug fixes found with unit tests from hlsl2glslfork project.
• Enhanced translation of Texture object intrinsics.
• Support for shadow samplers.
• Refactored shell commands.
• Fixed matrix storage layout.

XShaderCompiler 0.08 Alpha

Pre-release for testing purposes. Do not use for production!

News:

• Added C wrapper (ISO C99).
• Added C# wrapper.
• Started with translation of RWTexture objects.
• Refactored report outputs for localization.
• Overall refactoring of AST for object identifiers.
• Translation of static structure members.
• Translation of member functions in nested structures.
• Conversion of initializer lists for GLSL target below 420.
• Enhanced warning outputs.

XShaderCompiler 0.07 Alpha

Pre-release for testing purposes. Do not use for production!

News:

• Enhancement of implicit type conversion for intrinsic calls.
• Translation of structure member functions.
• Translation of vector conditions.
• Added texture/sampler separation for Vulkan GLSL.
• Added conversion for scope-rule differences between HLSL and GLSL.
• Refactored parsing and alysis of type specifiers.
• Started with GLSL front-end (currently only with pre-processor).

XShaderCompiler 0.06 Alpha

Fifth pre-release for testing purposes. Do not use for production!

News:

• Refactored name mangling and extended control for configuration.
• Continued with translation of geometry shaders.
• Enhanced report view in XscDebugger.

XShaderCompiler 0.05 Alpha

Forth pre-release for testing purposes. Do not use for production!

News:

• Added partial support for geometry shaders with example (but still incomplete).
• Overall refactoring and enhancements for GLSL output.
• Internal clean-up and bug fixes.

XShaderCompiler 0.04 Alpha

Third pre-release for testing purposes. Do not use for production!

News:

• Refactored translation of common input/output semantics.
• Xsc Debugger added.
• Several bug fixes.

XShaderCompiler 0.03 Alpha

Second pre-release for testing purposes. Do not use for production!

News:

• Better translation of common language constructs.
• Enhancements in Parsing, Context-Analysis, and Code Generation.
• More output formatting options.
• Examples added

XShaderCompiler 0.02 Alpha

First pre-release for testing purposes. Do not use for production!