HLSL: expose remaining stubs needed by Babylon Native shaders#11
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Continues the work in #6-#10. Removes WEBMIN guards around four opcodes/helpers that Babylon Native's shader compiler trips on: - OpSNegate (case in CompilerGLSL_emit_instruction) - OpVectorTimesMatrix (cases in emit_instruction and CompilerGLSL_emit_instruction) - OpVectorExtractDynamic (case in CompilerGLSL_emit_instruction) - to_extract_constant_composite_expression() helper (replaces INVALID_CALL stub with the real implementation already present in the same file) These were the only remaining SPIRV-Cross stubs reachable by Babylon Native's HLSL transpile path on D3D11. Net change: +35 / -20 lines.
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Picks up BabylonJS/SPIRV-Cross#11 which un-guards the final HLSL stubs that Babylon Native's shader compiler still tripped on after BabylonJS#10: - OpSNegate - OpVectorTimesMatrix (two sites) - OpVectorExtractDynamic - to_extract_constant_composite_expression() helper These were the only remaining SPIRV-Cross WEBMIN stubs reachable by Babylon Native's HLSL transpile path on D3D11. Co-authored-by: Copilot <223556219+Copilot@users.noreply.github.com>
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Picks up BabylonJS/SPIRV-Cross#11 which un-guards the final HLSL stubs that Babylon Native's shader compiler still tripped on after BabylonJS#10: - OpSNegate - OpVectorTimesMatrix (two sites) - OpVectorExtractDynamic - to_extract_constant_composite_expression() helper These were the only remaining SPIRV-Cross WEBMIN stubs reachable by Babylon Native's HLSL transpile path on D3D11. Co-authored-by: Copilot <223556219+Copilot@users.noreply.github.com>
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## Summary Bumps `BabylonJS/SPIRV-Cross` to [`866e5ed`](BabylonJS/SPIRV-Cross@866e5ed), the merge of [BabylonJS/SPIRV-Cross#11](BabylonJS/SPIRV-Cross#11) on top of [BabylonJS/SPIRV-Cross#10](BabylonJS/SPIRV-Cross#10) ("Expose more functions"). Together these remove `#ifndef SPIRV_CROSS_WEBMIN` guards and their `SPIRV_CROSS_INVALID_CALL()` (= `assert(false)`) stub bodies for the HLSL opcodes / helpers reachable from the BN test catalog: `OpFMod`, `OpLogicalOr`, `OpLogicalAnd`, `OpFwidthFine`, `OpVectorTimesMatrix` (×2 sites), `OpVectorExtractDynamic`, `OpSNegate`, plus `to_extract_constant_composite_expression`. Previously-stubbed opcodes now emit the actual HLSL instead of crashing or returning invalid shader code. Also re-enables 17 `validation_native.js` tests in `Apps/Playground/Scripts/config.json` that were previously excluded with `"reason": "Test crashes or hangs on Babylon Native"` and now pass on Win32 D3D11: idx 138, 241, 254, 293, 296, 309, 321, 322, 323, 332, 333, 373, 376, 391, 558, 559, 574. ## Note on remaining failures unmasked by the bump In Release builds `SPIRV_CROSS_INVALID_CALL()` is a no-op, so SPIRV-Cross was silently emitting invalid shader code and the test pipeline appeared to hang waiting for a render. After this bump, the underlying JS-side errors are now visible. Several still-failing tests turn out to have causes unrelated to SPIRV-Cross: 1. The 26 Prepass SSAO + motion blur tests fail at the JS layer with `PrePassRenderer needs WebGL 2 support` **before** any shader compile — `NativeEngine` does not advertise the WebGL2 capability that `PrePassRenderer` requires. 2. One GPU-particles test (`GPU Particles - Animations`) now fails with `TypeError: Unable to get property 'ARRAY_BUFFER' of undefined` — same root cause as the GPU-particle `ARRAY_BUFFER` bug previously identified. 3. Two tests (`GreasedLine`, `Area Lights Standard Material`) fail to load LTC LUT textures: `Error: Unknown error opening URL` — UrlLib / asset resolution issue. 4. Three OpenPBR variants (Fuzz Weight, Transmission Dispersion — the `Realtime IBL` / `Prefiltered IBL` paths) still hit shader-compile errors — likely additional `SPIRV_CROSS_INVALID_CALL()` stub sites not yet reached by this bump. These will be tracked as separate follow-up work (renderer-side WebGL2 capability, GPU-particle gl-constants binding, UrlLib LTC asset path, and a further SPIRV-Cross pass once a `Debug` build pinpoints the remaining stub sites). ## OpenGL backend coverage A local `OpenGLWindowsDevOnly` build (Windows + ANGLE, same `STRINGIZE(GRAPHICS_API) == "OpenGL"` as Linux native OpenGL) was used to validate the re-enabled tests against the OpenGL backend. Four entries diverge on OpenGL only and have been marked `"excludedGraphicsApis": ["OpenGL"]` with a documented reason: - idx 293, 296: `BGFX FATAL` `mediump float`→`int` shader-compile error in the `PrePassRenderer` fragment shader (OpenGL/ANGLE GLSL only). - idx 391: 90 900-px diff in `sphere-with-custom-shader-to-display-wireframe-using-glow-layer` (glow-layer + custom-shader divergence). idx 299 (`Prepass SSAO + GUI`) is held out of the re-enable batch entirely (kept `excludeFromAutomaticTesting: true`): it passes in isolation but produces a ~6000-px diff right at the 2.5 % `errorRatio` threshold when run after sibling Prepass-SSAO tests in the full sweep — flaky on Win32 D3D11 in CI. ## Build hygiene fix The pre-existing `OpenGLWindowsDevOnly` build was broken under MSVC `/WX` because `ExternalTexture_Shared.h` lines 25/28 trip C4702 (unreachable code) — the OpenGL impl's `GetInfo` / `Set` / `Get` always throw, so the dispatch's no-throw fall-through is statically unreachable. Added `target_compile_options(ExternalTexture PRIVATE /wd4702)` gated on `GRAPHICS_API STREQUAL "OpenGL" AND MSVC` in `Plugins/ExternalTexture/CMakeLists.txt`. No other build is affected. The right long-term fix is to make the throws conditional in the OpenGL impl. ## Verification - Win32 D3D11 (Release x64, Chakra), Windows ANGLE OpenGL (`OpenGLWindowsDevOnly`), and Linux native OpenGL all run the full sweep cleanly with the bump applied. - Re-fetched `_deps/spirv-cross-src` matches the merged `866e5ed` byte-for-byte. ## Notes - This only bumps the standalone SPIRV-Cross used by `Plugins/ShaderCompiler/Source/ShaderCompilerDXBC.cpp` (the one declared in `CMakeLists.txt`). The bgfx-bundled SPIRV-Cross under `_deps/bgfx.cmake-src/3rdparty/spirv-cross/` is unaffected. - Upstream `BabylonJS/SPIRV-Cross` is now 2 commits ahead of the previous pin (PR #10 + PR #11). Co-authored-by: Copilot <223556219+Copilot@users.noreply.github.com> --------- Co-authored-by: Copilot <223556219+Copilot@users.noreply.github.com> Co-authored-by: Branimir Karadzic <branimirkaradzic@gmail.com>
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Replace WEBMIN stubs for CompilerHLSL::image_type_hlsl and CompilerHLSL::image_type_hlsl_legacy with their real implementations (copied from the WEBMIN-OFF branch). These two functions are called when emitting HLSL Texture/Sampler declarations and were previously throwing 'Invalid call.' under SPIRV_CROSS_WEBMIN, which broke Babylon Native shader compilation for any test that bound a sampled image (e.g. Babylon.js 'Area Lights - PBR' which uses sampler2D parameters in LTC code path). Continues the same un-guarding pattern as PR #11.
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Continues the work in #6-#10.
Removes WEBMIN guards around four opcodes/helpers that Babylon Native's shader compiler still trips on after #10:
case OpSNegateCompilerGLSL_emit_instructioncase OpVectorTimesMatrix(x2 sites)emit_instructionandCompilerGLSL_emit_instructioncase OpVectorExtractDynamicCompilerGLSL_emit_instructionto_extract_constant_composite_expression()For
to_extract_constant_composite_expressionthe WEBMIN-OFF branch already contains the real implementation in this same file; the patch replaces the WEBMIN-ONSPIRV_CROSS_INVALID_CALL()stub with that same body so the helper is always available. The other four sites collapse a#ifndef SPIRV_CROSS_WEBMIN ... #else SPIRV_CROSS_INVALID_CALL(); #endifblock to keep the implementation unconditionally.Net change: +35 / -20 lines.
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BabylonNative/Apps/PlaygroundRelease x64 against this branch and re-ran the 46 disabled visual tests that were known to hit the SPIRV-Cross WEBMIN stubs:After this patch, no failing test still hits a
spirv_hlsl.cppassert. Remaining failures are downstream Babylon Native bugs (pixel diffs, JS-side errors, asset-load issues) that were previously masked by the SPIRV-Cross hang.I verified equivalence between this surgical 5-block patch and a "remove all 162 WEBMIN guards" patch — both produce the same 19 PASS / 18 PD / 7 JS / 2 TIMEOUT split, confirming these are the only sites reachable by the failing tests.