Instructions for building the GFXReconstruct project source code on Linux, Windows, and Android platforms.
Copyright © 2018-2023 LunarG, Inc.
The following documentation provides end user build instructions for the GFXReconstruct software. Developers interested in contributing to the project should also see CONTRIBUTING.md for additional setup instructions.
The GFXReconstruct repository contains the source code for a Vulkan API capture layer and associated tools for processing captured files. It is organized with the following file structure:
Top Folder | Sub-Folder | Description |
---|---|---|
android | Android build files and script for deploying and launching the replay tool. | |
cmake | CMake utility files to assist with the build process. | |
external | Third party components provided as either Git sub-modules or pre-compiled binaries. | |
framework | Framework library components used to create the capture layer and associated tools. | |
application | Library providing components to manage replay execution and adapt to different windowing systems. | |
decode | Library providing components to decode and process GFXR capture file content. | |
encode | Library providing components to encode and write GFXR capture file content. | |
format | Library providing utilities and type definitions for the GFXR capture file format. | |
generated | Python code generators for the Vulkan XML Registry, along with the generated C++ source code to be used for encoding and decoding Vulkan API-related data. | |
util | Library providing utility functions. | |
layer | GFXReconstruct capture layer for recording Vulkan API data. | |
tools | Tools for processing capture files. | |
compress | Tool to compress or decompress GFXR capture files. | |
extract | Tool to extract SPIR-V binaries from GFXR capture files. | |
info | Tool to print information describing GFXR capture files. | |
replay | Tool to replay GFXR capture files. | |
convert | Tool to convert GFXR capture files to a JSON Lines listing of API calls. |
Use the following Git command to create a local copy of the GFXReconstruct repository:
git clone https://github.com/LunarG/gfxreconstruct.git
The GFXReconstruct project has both required and optional dependencies. See the External Dependencies README.md for details regarding individual dependencies.
Required dependencies are included with the GFXReconstruct repository as Git submodules. After cloning the repository, execute the following command from within the GFXReconstruct project folder to initialize the submodules:
git submodule update --init
Submodules will be updated periodically as the GFXReconstruct project is updated to support new Vulkan API releases. To obtain submodule updates, execute the following command from within the GFXReconstruct project folder:
git submodule update
Submodules will need to be updated when the repository status (e.g.
git status
) shows the submodule folders as having been modified
after a repository update (e.g. git pull
).
For desktop builds, there is a Python 3 build script, scripts/build.py
, that can
be used to update Git submodule dependencies, configure, and build the GFXReconstruct
software. The script works with both Windows and Linux, and requires Python 3.5 or
above.
A 64 bit ARM Windows build can be achieved on an ARM64 Windows host system with the following command:
python scripts/build.py -a arm64
By default, the script performs some optional build steps that are intended for developer builds. If the target build system has not been configured for developer builds as described in CONTRIBUTING.md, the script can be run with the following options to disable the developer build steps:
python scripts/build.py --skip-check-code-style --skip-tests
The above invocation will run on a single core.
To speed up the build with parallel processes,
the standard CMake environment variable
CMAKE_BUILD_PARALLEL_LEVEL
may be used.
For example, to use eight processes from within Bash:
CMAKE_BUILD_PARALLEL_LEVEL=8 python scripts/build.py --skip-check-code-style --skip-tests
By default, the script builds support for capturing and replaying
Direct3D 12. To omit Direct3D 12 components, specify
--skip-d3d12-support
. For example:
python scripts/build.py --skip-d3d12-support
Run the script with the -h
option for additional usage information.
- Microsoft Visual Studio
- CMake (Version 3.16.3 or newer)
- The build instructions assume that CMake has been added to the system PATH
- Git Client Support
- Git for Windows is a popular solution for Windows
- Some IDEs (e.g., Visual Studio, GitHub Desktop) have integrated Git client support
The general approach is to first run CMake to generate the Visual Studio project
files. Then either run CMake with the --build
option to build from the command
line or use the Visual Studio IDE to open the generated solution and work with the
solution interactively.
Change your current directory to the top level directory for the cloned GFXReconstruct repository, create a build folder, and generate the Visual Studio project files.
The following example demonstrates the generation of project files for the Visual Studio 2017 x64 build configuration:
cd gfxreconstruct
mkdir build
cmake -H. -Bbuild -G "Visual Studio 15 Win64"
The following commands can be used to generate project files for different variations of the Visual Studio 2017 WIN32 and x64 build configurations:
- 64-bit for VS 2017:
cmake -H. -Bbuild -G "Visual Studio 15 Win64"
- 32-bit for VS 2017:
cmake -H. -Bbuild -G "Visual Studio 15"
Running any of the above commands will create a Windows solution file named
GFXReconstruct.sln
in the build directory.
Visual Studio configuration will include support for capturing and replaying Direct3D 12 by default. To omit Direct3D 12 components, specify -DD3D12_SUPPORT=OFF
to cmake.
At this point, you can build the solution from the command line or open the generated solution with Visual Studio.
Note: The D3D12 build uses Windows 10 SDK 10.0.20348.0. Other Windows SDK versions may not be compatible. If you need to specify a Windows SDK, please use -DCMAKE_SYSTEM_VERSION=10.0.20348.0
. If Python code generation is required, the shell used to run it should set the environment variable WindowsSDKVersion=10.0.20348.0
.
When generating a native build on an ARM64 Windows host the Visual Studio
Installer can be used to install the required Windows SDK version, 10.0.20348.0
.
Once the correct Windows SDK is installed, from a newly opened developer command
prompt for Visual Studio 2022, the following CMake invocation will generate a Visual
Studio solution and projects.
cmake -H. -Bbuild -G "Visual Studio 17 2022" -A ARM64 -DCMAKE_SYSTEM_VERSION=10.0.20348.0
To build the Debug configuration, run the following command from the build directory:
cmake --build .
To build the Release configuration, run the following command from the build directory:
cmake --build . --config Release
Launch Visual Studio and open the GFXReconstruct.sln
solution file
from the build folder. You may select "Debug" or "Release" from the Solution
Configurations drop-down list. Start a build by selecting the Build->Build
Solution menu item.
Building on Linux requires the installation of the following packages:
- A C++ compiler with C++-14 support
- Git
- CMake
- X11 + XCB and/or Wayland development libraries
GFXReconstruct is built and tested for SDK development using Ubuntu 20.04 and 22.04. Older Ubuntu releases are unsupported.
For Ubuntu, the required packages can be installed with the following command:
sudo apt-get install git cmake build-essential libx11-xcb-dev libxcb-keysyms1-dev \
libwayland-dev libxrandr-dev zlib1g-dev liblz4-dev libzstd-dev
For 32-bit builds (DXVK might require 32-bit):
sudo apt-get install g++-multilib libx11-xcb-dev:i386 libxcb-keysyms1-dev:i386 \
libwayland-dev:i386 libxrandr-dev:i386 zlib1g-dev:i386 liblz4-dev:i386 libzstd-dev:i386
For arm64 builds (cross compilation):
sudo apt-get install g++-aarch64-linux-gnu
For Fedora, the required packages can be installed with the following command:
sudo dnf install git cmake libxcb-devel libX11-devel xcb-util-keysyms-devel \
libXrandr-devel wayland-devel zlib-devel lz4-devel libzstd-devel g++
For arm64 builds (cross compilation):
sudo dnf install g++-aarch64-linux-gnu
The general approach is to run CMake to generate makefiles. Then either run
CMake with the --build
option or make
to build from the command line.
Change your current directory to the top level directory for the cloned GFXReconstruct repository, create a build folder, and generate the make files.
The following example demonstrates makefile generation for a 64-bit Debug build:
cd gfxreconstruct
mkdir build
cmake -H. -Bbuild -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Debug
The following commands can be used to generate makefiles for different
variations of Debug and Release, as well as different architectures.
-DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE
is used to specify Debug
or Release
build
profiles and the -DCMAKE_TOOLCHAIN_FILE
with a matching toolcain file
can be changed to compile for different architectures:
- 64-bit x64 Release (default): cmake -H. -Bbuild -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release
- 32-bit x86 Debug: cmake -H. -Bbuild -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Debug -DCMAKE_TOOLCHAIN_FILE=cmake/toolchain/linux_x86_32.cmake
- 32-bit x86 Release: cmake -H. -Bbuild -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release -DCMAKE_TOOLCHAIN_FILE=cmake/toolchain/linux_x86_32.cmake
- 32-bit arm Release: cmake -H. -Bbuild -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release -DCMAKE_TOOLCHAIN_FILE=cmake/toolchain/linux_arm.cmake
- 64-bit arm Release: cmake -H. -Bbuild -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release -DCMAKE_TOOLCHAIN_FILE=cmake/toolchain/linux_arm64.cmake
For 32-bit builds, the 32-bit versions of the required packages specified above must be installed.
Run either the make
or cmake --build .
command from the build directory
to build the GFXReconstruct project source.
For faster builds on multi-core systems with make
, use make -jN
to
specify the number of jobs that are allowed to run at the same time with
the build. For example:
make -j4
For build systems that support ccache, it can be enabled with the CMake
-DUSE_CCACHE=On
option.
Files can be installed to "/usr/local/" with sudo make install
For Linux, the default install directory /usr/local
can be changed by setting CMake's CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX
variable. For example, to install to a "/tmp/gfxreconstruct" directory, run cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/tmp/gfxreconstruct .
from gfxreconstruct's root source directory. Then install with make install
.
- The latest version of Android Studio with additional items:
- The Android Platform tools for your specific platform
- Android SDK 33 (13 Tiramisu) or newer
- Android NDK 21.3.6528147 (r21d)
- Java JDK 1.11
Additional requirements for building from the Linux command-line:
- Define
ANDROID_HOME
to be the path to the SDK installed on your system by Android Studio.- Refer to Android Studio to find out where the files are installed
- NOTE: For older Android Stud io's you may also have to set
ANDROID_SDK_ROOT
to the same value
- NOTE: For older Android Stud io's you may also have to set
- For example:
- Refer to Android Studio to find out where the files are installed
export ANDROID_HOME=$HOME/Android/Sdk`
- Define JAVA_HOME to the path to the directory of the JDK.
- For example:
export JAVA_HOME=/usr/lib/jvm/java-11-openjdk-11.0.18.0.10-1.fc37.x86_64
- Make the
gradlew
script executablechmod +x android/gradlew
Run the following command from the gfxreconstruct/android
folder to perform a
debug build with Gradle:
On Windows:
gradlew assembleDebug
On Linux:
./gradlew assembleDebug
To perform a release build, replace the assembleDebug
task name with assembleRelease
.
- Open Android Studio
- Choose
Import Project
, browse to thegfxreconstruct/android
folder, and clickOK
.- This option is available through either the opening Dialog box or the
File -> New -> Import Project...
menu item - If import succeeds, the following two project modules will be displayed by the Project browser:
- layer - The GFXReconstruct capture layer for recording Vulkan API data
- replay - The GFXReconstruct tool to replay GFXR capture files
- This option is available through either the opening Dialog box or the
- Build the project by selecting the
Build -> Make Project
menu item or pressingCtrl+F9
The GFXReconstruct layer project may be added as a dependency of an existing
Android application project. After the layer has been added as an application
dependency, it will be built when the application is built and automatically
included with the application's APK. A manifest file provided by the
GFXReconstruct layer project will also be merged with the application's
Manifest file, adding uses-permission
elements for the permissions required
by the layer (e.g. WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE
).
To add the GFXReconstruct project as an application dependency, first add the
following lines to the application's settings.gradle
file, replacing the
{gfxreconstruct_root}
value with the actual path to the top level
GFXReconstruct project folder:
include ':VkLayer_gfxreconstruct'
project(':VkLayer_gfxreconstruct').projectDir = file('{gfxreconstruct_root}/android/layer')
Next, add the following lines to the application's build.gradle
file:
dependencies {
implementation project(':VkLayer_gfxreconstruct')
}
NOTE: Make sure it is the app version of build.gradle
(usually found in an
app folder).
This may not necessarily be the top build.gradle
in the tree.
- Download the latest Android Vulkan Validation Layer binaries from the GitHub release page
- Extract the prebuilt layer binaries and include them in the
gfxrecon-replay
APK by adding them to the following directories:
gfxreconstruct/android/tools/replay/src/main/jniLibs/
arm64-v8a/
libVkLayer_khronos_validation.so
armeabi-v7a/
libVkLayer_khronos_validation.so
x86/
libVkLayer_khronos_validation.so
x86-64/
libVkLayer_khronos_validation.so
- Rebuild and deploy
gfxrecon-replay
The Android Vulkan Validation Guide has further instructions for advanced validation layer usage on Android
For more information and detailed examples on building and using GFXReconstruct on Android can be found in the HOWTO_android.md document.