Linux port questions

[IkerGalardi]

Hi! Want to try to port the engine to Linux but I have several questions:

• How do shaders get compiled into spirv? Does the engine use dxcompiler? If that's the case linux builds should use a different approach.

• Using a different sound library would be a pain to implement? As far as I've seen FMod is a proprietary library so having it working on Linux reliably can be a pain in the but.

[PanosK92]

Hi!

You are more than welcome to.

• The engine uses DirectXShaderCompiler. My understanding is that you can also use it on Linux, right?
• I am using SDL for input and windows, I think it also has audio support, so we could use that and remove FMod.

FYI: Vulkan is not very stable yet as I am adding some finishing touches, but it works.

[IkerGalardi]

Cool! I'll start by fixing some minor issues with the project generator (some scripts not having the correct permissions, etc) and sending a pull request. And when I have more time I can start to implement audio using SDL instead. From that point on there should not be any difficulties (fingers crossed).

[PanosK92]

Sounds good, don't worry about the time or even doing it at all, just have some fun. If we can get it to generate a project on Linux, even if it doesn't compile, it's still a great step, we could merge it into the repository.

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