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imgui/examples/example_sdl3_wgpu
BrutPitt 46ca8bc16f Backends, Examples: WGPU: wip refactor. (8381)
Rebased and squashed 47 commits.
- ImGui WebGPU examples: removed swap-chain in favor of surfaceConfigure (8191)
- New SDL2 WGPU example
- Code optimization: removed the redundancies of assignment
- Changes: ImGui code style - Lambdas RequestAdapter and RequestDevice callbacks declarated as signature - Validation Layer callbacks moved from lambdas to standard functions
- Same changes of GLFW example: ImGui code style - Lambdas RequestAdapter and RequestDevice callbacks declarated as signature - Validation Layer callbacks moved from lambdas to standard functions
- Scrollbars inhibition
- Use of new direct CreateDevice function (w/o callback), added release of all resources used (not present in original example)
- If the O.S. is Linux/Unix check if Wayland is the current active session and set DAWN_USE_WAYLAND=ON option (otherwise is always OFF)
- example_glfw_wgpu: removed all workarounds
- example_sdl2_wgpu: same style and functionality as GLFW example
- sdl2wgpu tool to acquire surfaceDescriptor via SDL_syswm and to pass to wgpuInstanceCreateSurface to create WGPU Surface
- css style to avoid the scrollbar
- added `chek_surface_texture_status` function to check the `WGPUSurfaceTexture .status` and recreate the `Surface` in case of "not optimal" (bad) status.
- Changed comment reference to `emwgpudawn` an EMSCRIPTEN WGPU binding maintained by Google
- Adaptation to the last Google DAWN commit (1411699ba)
Adaptation to the last EMSCRIPTEN 4.0.10, using new "--use-port=emdawnwebgpu" compiler/linker flag
- Support for EMSCRIPTEN >= 4.0.10 (using "--use-port=emdawnwebgpu") and NEW support for WGPU-Native
- Finalized the support of WGPU-Native for MacOS and minimal code adjustment
- WebGPU examples - DAWN / WGPU native and EMSCRIPTEN - for GLFW/SDL2/SDL3 frameworks
- "index.html" no more necessary (now the common one is used), "sdl2wgpu.cpp" It has been moved and renamed (sdl2_wgpu.c), "sdl2wgpu.h" no more necessary
- added procedure for using CMake
- added procedure for using CMake
- Updated example_sdl3_wgpu build procedure for EMSCRIPTEN
- WGPU+GLFW: Helper to create a WebGPU surface for Native application. Used only with WGPU-Native SDK: DAWN-Native already has a built-in function
- WGPU+SDL2: helper to create a WebGPU surface (exclusively!) for Native/Desktop applications and available only together with WebGPU/WGPU backend
- WGPU+SDL3: helper to create a WebGPU surface (exclusively!) for Native/Desktop applications and available only together with WebGPU/WGPU backend
- WebGPU Helper functions and differentiation between the 4 compilation methods (via defines): Google DAWN (Native/Emscripten) / WGPU (Native/EMscripten)
- example_glfw_wgpu: ImGui_ImplGLFW_CreateWGPUSurface_Helper (new helper function in imgui_impl_glfw backend), check status and error callback functions in imgui_impl_wgpu backend
- example_sdl2_wgpu: ImGui_ImplSDL2_CreateWGPUSurface_Helper (new helper function in imgui_impl_sdl2 backend), check status and error callback functions in imgui_impl_wgpu backend
- example_sdl3_wgpu: ImGui_ImplSDL3_CreateWGPUSurface_Helper (new helper function in imgui_impl_sdl3 backend), check status and error callback functions in imgui_impl_wgpu backend
- Functions ImGui_ImplXXXX_CreateWGPUSurface_Helper were inserted into imgui_impl_xxxx (xxxx = GLFW / SDL2 / SDL3), and initialization has been integrated into every example: no more necessary, removed
2025-09-24 17:51:38 +02:00
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How to Build

Using CMake

Building for desktop (WebGPU-native) with Google Dawn:

  1. git clone https://github.com/google/dawn dawn
  2. cmake -B build -DIMGUI_DAWN_DIR=dawn
  3. cmake --build build The resulting binary will be found at one of the following locations:
  • build/Debug/example_sdl2_wgpu[.exe]
  • build/example_sdl2_wgpu[.exe]

Building for desktop (WebGPU-Native) with WGPU:

  1. download WGPU-Native autogenerated binary modules for your platform/compiler from: https://github.com/gfx-rs/wgpu-native/releases
  2. unzip the downloaded file in your_preferred_folder
  3. move into your_preferred_folder (e.g. typing: cd your_preferred_folder)
  4. cmake -B build -DIMGUI_WGPU_DIR=your_preferred_folder ("full path" or "relative" starting from current directory)
  5. cmake --build build The resulting binary will be found at one of the following locations:
  • build/Debug/example_sdl2_wgpu[.exe]
  • build/example_sdl2_wgpu[.exe]

Building for Emscripten:

At current date (Jul/2025) there is no official support for SDL3 in EMSCRIPTEN, and its use in EMSCRIPTEN is also in the experimental phase. To use SDL3 with EMSCRIPTEN you need to download the SDL3 repository (source code) and build the libraries for EMSCRIPTEN following the official page: https://wiki.libsdl.org/SDL3/README-emscripten#building-sdlemscripten

  • the SDL3 library will be built in your_SDL3_folder/build
  1. Install Emscripten SDK following the instructions: https://emscripten.org/docs/getting_started/downloads.html
  2. Install Ninja build system
  3. emcmake cmake -DIMGUI_SDL3_EMSCRIPTEN_DIR=your_SDL3_folder -G Ninja -B build
  4. cmake --build build

To run:

  • emrun build/index.html

or

  • python -m http.server then open WGPU browser with url: http://localhost:8000/build

Using makefile

How to Run

To run on a local machine:

  • Make sure your browse supports WGPU and it is enabled. WGPU is still WIP not enabled by default in most browser.
  • make serve will use Python3 to spawn a local webserver, you can then browse http://localhost:8000 to access your build.
  • Otherwise, generally you will need a local webserver:
    • Quoting https://emscripten.org/docs/getting_started:
      "Unfortunately several browsers (including Chrome, Safari, and Internet Explorer) do not support file:// XHR requests, and cant load extra files needed by the HTML (like a .wasm file, or packaged file data as mentioned lower down). For these browsers youll need to serve the files using a local webserver and then open http://localhost:8000/hello.html."
    • Emscripten SDK has a handy emrun command: emrun web/example_glfw_wgpu.html --browser firefox which will spawn a temporary local webserver (in Firefox). See https://emscripten.org/docs/compiling/Running-html-files-with-emrun.html for details.
    • You may use Python 3 builtin webserver: python -m http.server -d web (this is what make serve uses).
    • You may use Python 2 builtin webserver: cd web && python -m SimpleHTTPServer.
    • If you are accessing the files over a network, certain browsers, such as Firefox, will restrict Gamepad API access to secure contexts only (e.g. https only).