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1// Copyright 2014-2022 The Khronos Group Inc.
2// SPDX-License-Identifier: CC-BY-4.0
3
4= Vulkan^(R)^ Specification Repository Scripts
5
6This directory contains scripts used in building the Vulkan API
7specification and related artifacts. For the most part, these scripts are
8invoked from the top-level directory or from the API Registry in
9../xml to build generated components of the specification.
10
11Scripts in this directory include:
12
13  * `genvk.py` - Python script to generate Vulkan headers and some other
14    targets, using the generators described below.
15  * `reg.py` - Python tools to read a registry XML file and call into
16    generators to create headers and other types of output.
17  * `conventions.py`, `vkconventions.py`, `apiconventions.py` - API-specific
18    parameters and formatting / style conventions used by generators.
19  * `generator.py` - output generator base class.
20  ** `cgenerator.py` - C header output generator.
21  ** `docgenerator.py` - Asciidoc interface language include generator.
22  ** `extensionmetadocgenerator.py` - Generator for Asciidoc extension
23     descriptions in spec appendices.
24  ** `hostsyncgenerator.py` - Asciidoc host sync table generator.
25  ** `interfacedocgenerator.py` - Asciidoc extension appendix interface
26     generator.
27  ** `pygenerator.py, `rubygenerator.py`, `scriptgenerator.py` - generate
28     Python and Ruby encodings of parts of the API description for use in
29     other scripts and asciidoctor extensions.
30  ** `spirvcapgenerator.py` - Asciidoc generator for SPIR-V capability
31     tables.
32  ** `validitygenerator.py` - Asciidoc validity language generator.
33
34  * `check_spec_links.py` - validates a variety of markup and content in the
35    Asciidoctor specification source.
36  * `conventions.py`, `vkconventions.py` - API-specific options used by
37    scripts shared with OpenXR and other APIs.
38  * `extdependency.py` - generate extension dependencies for use when
39    building the specification.
40  * `genanchorlinks.py` - add HTML `href` attributes to asciidoctor output
41    to improve UI for VUID anchors.
42  * `genRelease`, `genspec.py` - build HTML and PDF Specifications with a
43    variety of options to control target directories, extensions included
44    while building, etc.
45  * `genRef.py`, `reflib.py`, `makemanaliases.py` - extract API reference
46    pages from specification source into single-page source documents, and
47    create symbolic links in the generated refpage HTML for API aliases.
48  * `indexExt.py` - generate HTML index of all extensions for inclusion into
49    the Vulkan registry index page.
50  * `reflow.py`, `reflow_count.py` - reflow specification source text to
51    follow style guidelines, and insert Valid Usage statements where they
52    are needed.
53  * `test_check_spec_links.py`, `test_check_spec_links_api_specific.py`,
54    `test_entity_db.py` - these are from another Khronos WG repository and
55    are unused by Vulkan at present.
56  * `xml_consistency.py` - perform some internal consistency checks on
57    `vk.xml`.
58
59  * `compImages.sh` - compare images in two branches.
60  * `htmldiff/htmldiff` - HTML diff script (see below).
61  * `Retired/` - contains obsolete, unused, or single-purpose scripts. Not
62    maintained.
63
64== HTML Diff Script for Vulkan
65
66This is a first cut at a script to compare Vulkan HTML specifications. Usage
67is simply 'htmldiff file1.html file2.html > diff.html'. The script does not
68copy CSS and images required by the input specs, so it is best to generate
69the output in the same directory as one of the inputs. However, the script
70must be invoked from the directory it is located within.
71
72The scripts used require Python and Perl. Additionally, the python
73'utidylib' module and the underlying libtidy C library are required.
74On Debian Linux, it may be necessary to install the 'python-utidylib' and
75'libtidy' packages if they are not already present.
76
77The scripts are taken from the code backing the
78
79    http://services.w3.org/htmldiff
80
81website. `htmldiff` is the Python driver script. `htmldiff.pl` is the
82Perl script which generates the diff after preprocessing of the input
83HTML by `htmldiff`. `htmldiff.orig` is the original Python script from
84the website, modified to run at the command line instead of as a CGI
85script.
86