[Lazarus] Vulkan Library for FreePascal/Lazarus

[Benjamin Rosseaux]

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=PasVulkan-Vulkan--Pascal-Bind
:-)

On Tue, May 9, 2017 at 4:38 AM, Benjamin Rosseaux <benjamin at rosseaux.de>
wrote:

> PasVulkan seems to be have better Platform Support (incl. Support for
> Wayland, Mir, Android, MoltenVK, etc.) and more Vulkan Utils stuff, like
> texture loaders for DDS, KTX, PNG, TGA, etc. and a own working memory
> manager for manage the Vulkan memory (the reason for it, see slide 20 on
> http://32ipi028l5q82yhj72224m8j.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wp-
> content/uploads/2016/05/Most-common-mistakes-in-Vulkan-apps.pdf with the
> slide sub-title "PROBLEMATIC AREAS: MEMORY MANAGEMENT" ).
>
> The Vulkan memory management stuff is in very many Vulkan code examples
> and Vulkan frameworks on the web often totally wrong, that there will be
> often worked without sub-allocations and that the maxMemoryAllocationCount
> limit is often ignored by the most Vulkan code examples and Vulkan
> frameworks on the web. In contrast to it, PasVulkan is here in this point
> fully Vulkan specification compliant.
>
>
> On Thu, Apr 13, 2017 at 6:34 PM, Michalis Kamburelis via Lazarus <
> lazarus at lists.lazarus-ide.org> wrote:
>
>> a2017-04-13 11:30 GMT+02:00 Kostas Michalopoulos via Lazarus
>> <lazarus at lists.lazarus-ide.org>:
>> > This is nice, although personally i do not like the use of multiple inc
>> > files. I think Benjamin Rosseaux's pasvulkan does it better with
>> creating a
>> > single pas file (he also uses a unit from the vk.xml file):
>> >
>> > https://github.com/BeRo1985/pasvulkan/blob/master/src/Vulkan.pas
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > On Thu, Apr 13, 2017 at 7:32 AM, James.mcjohnson via Lazarus
>> > <lazarus at lists.lazarus-ide.org> wrote:
>> >>
>> >> This is both an announcement and request for help for an open source
>> >> FreePascal project which strives to provide:
>> >> 1) a low level access to Vulkan API created directly from the vk.xml
>> >> specification
>> >> 2) high level wrapper classes for ease of integration in an FP/Lazarus
>> >> project
>> >>
>> >> The project is located at
>> >> https://github.com/james-mcjohnson/VulkanLibraryForFreePascal and I
>> would
>> >> appreciate any constructive feedback.
>> >>
>> >> It is my hope that a better programmer than I am will take an interest
>> and
>> >> help create a truly useful Vulkan Library for FreePascal.
>> >>
>>
>> I want to add Vulkan renderer to Castle Game Engine later this year.
>> Now I don't know which project to choose:) Both approaches
>> (https://github.com/james-mcjohnson/VulkanLibraryForFreePascal and
>> https://github.com/BeRo1985/pasvulkan ) seem very fine to me,
>>
>> - in both cases you generate the Pascal code automatically from vk.xml,
>> - in both cases you provide a nicely-looking OOP API,
>> - both projects have suitable open-source licenses (MIT or zlib).
>>
>> I don't mind a couple of include files, they actually include
>> readability for me. (I know, it's a matter of taste -- do you prefer
>> to navigate multiple smaller files, or navigate one big file.)
>>
>> @James, would you mind removing the "Public Service Announcement" from
>> https://github.com/james-mcjohnson/VulkanLibraryForFreePasca
>> l/blob/master/LICENSE.md
>> ? Don't get me wrong, I understand that you want to promote your faith
>> and I respect that. Having this in README files, and Pascal sources,
>> is absolutely OK. But I'm not a lawyer, and I'm unsure how it affects
>> the legal text of the license. Having just an "unmodified MIT license"
>> would feel safer for me.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Michalis
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