To use multiple separable programs, they must first be assembled into an OpenGL Object type called a program pipeline. Unlike program or shader objects, these follow the standard OpenGL Object mode. Therefore, there is a glGenProgramPipelines function to create new pipeline names, a glDeleteProgramPipelines to delete them, and a glBindProgramPipeline to bind it to the context.
Program pipeline objects do not have targets, so the last function only takes the pipeline to be bound. Similar to Sampler Objects , program pipeline objects should only be bound when you intend to render with them or set uniforms through them, as described below.
The only state in program pipeline objects are the list of programs that contain the code for the various shader stages.
This state is set by this function:. Program pipeline objects are container objects. As such, they cannot be shared across multiple OpenGL contexts.
Once you have a functioning program pipeline with all of the separate stages you would like to use, you can render with it. To do that, you must first bind the program pipeline with glBindProgramPipeline. After binding a pipeline, you can then render with those stages as normal , or dispatch compute work. Program pipelines can also be validated.
However, with separate programs and program pipelines, the definition of "currently used program" is much more complicated. It works as follows. OpenGL first checks the program currently set by glUseProgram you can bind separable programs with this function. If a program is bound through this function, then that is the currently used program.
If no program is set by this function ie: if you execute glUseProgram 0 , then the next step occurs. The currently bound program pipeline is checked. Program pipelines have the concept of an active program. The active program of a program pipeline object is the "currently used program" again, only if a program isn't in use by glUseProgram. It may not be zero ; you cannot unset an active program once you set it onto the pipeline object. The following examples depict multiple possible scenarios when using separable programs.
The first example aims at showing the simplicity inherent in using glCreateShaderProgramv. The second shows how to deal with multi-stage programs and doing some pre-linking work not possible when creating single-stage, separable programs. Compiling and linking shaders, regardless of which method you use, can take a long time.
The more shaders you have, the longer this process takes. It is often useful to be able to cache the result of program linking, so that this cached program can be reloaded much faster. This is done via a set of calls. Given a successfully linked program, the user can fetch a block of binary data, in a certain format, that represents this program. Armed with this length, the actual binary can be obtained with this function:. It is not optional, and it must be stored alongside the actual binary data.
Given the format and the binary data, a new program object can be created with this binary data. It can also fail for other reasons; you cannot guarantee that a binary can be loaded. Program objects contain certain state. The program binary only encapsulates the state of the program at the moment linking was successful.
This means that all uniforms are reset to their default values either specified in-shader or 0. Vertex attributes and fragment shader outputs will have the values assigned, as well as transform feedback data, interface block bindings, and so forth.
If glProgramBinary is successful, it should result in a program object that is identical to the original program object as it was immediately after linking. If the original program was separable , then the program built from the binary will also be separable. And vice-versa. Program binary formats are not intended to be transmitted.
It is not reasonable to expect different hardware vendors to accept the same binary formats. It is not reasonable to expect different hardware from the same vendor to accept the same binary formats. Indeed, you cannot expect the cached version to work even on the same machine. Driver updates between when the data was cached and when it is reloaded can change the acceptable binary formats. Therefore, glProgramBinary can fail frequently. If you use this functionality, you must have a fallback for creating your shaders if the binary is rejected.
The use of this function will replace the shaders specified by previous calls to glShaderSource or glShaderBinary. Two differences are particularly relevant. Before a SPIR-V shader object can be used, you must specify which entry-point to use and provide values for any specialization constants used by that entry-point. This is done through a single function:. If specialization fails, then the shader infolog has information explaining why and an OpenGL Error is generated.
If specialization fails, the shader's info log is updated appropriately. However, you can reload the SPIR-V binary data into them, which will allow them to be specialized again. SPIR-V shader objects that have been specialized can be used to link programs separable or otherwise.
Program linking can fail for various reasons. Linking happens when creating a separate program as well as when loading a program binary into a program object. All of these processes can fail. To determine if linking has failed, call glGetProgramiv :. Otherwise it succeeded. Like in most languages, linker errors are provided as text messages.
OpenGL allows you to query a log containing these errors. To do so, you must first query the log's length using glGetProgramiv again:. Shaders in stages have inputs and outputs. Most values output by shaders directly feed subsequent shader stage input variables. There are rules for how these must match. Put the file «glut This can be in the same directory as your executable file. Put the file «glut. Note: This needs to come after you include and. Note: This needs to come before you include.
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