How To Install spirv-cross on Debian 12
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install spirv-cross
on Debian 12.
What is spirv-cross
spirv-cross is:
SPIRV-Cross is a tool designed for parsing and converting SPIR-V to other shader languages:
- Convert SPIR-V to readable, usable and efficient GLSL
- Convert SPIR-V to readable, usable and efficient MSL
- Convert SPIR-V to readable, usable and efficient HLSL
- Reflection API to simplify the creation of Vulkan pipeline layouts
- Reflection API to modify and tweak OpDecorations
- Supports “all” of vertex, fragment, tessellation, geometry and compute shaders
This package provides the CLI tool.
There are three methods to install spirv-cross
on Debian 12. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install spirv-cross Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install spirv-cross
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install spirv-cross
Install spirv-cross Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install spirv-cross
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install spirv-cross
Install spirv-cross Using aptitude
If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Debian. Update apt database with aptitude
using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install spirv-cross
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install spirv-cross
How To Uninstall spirv-cross on Debian 12
To uninstall only the spirv-cross
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove spirv-cross
Uninstall spirv-cross And Its Dependencies
To uninstall spirv-cross
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 12, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove spirv-cross
Remove spirv-cross Configurations and Data
To remove spirv-cross
configuration and data from Debian 12 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge spirv-cross
Remove spirv-cross configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove spirv-cross
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge spirv-cross
Dependencies
spirv-cross have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install spirv-cross
package on Debian 12 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.