Cargo Features
[dependencies]
wgpu = { version = "24.0.3", default-features = false, features = ["dx12", "metal", "webgpu", "angle", "vulkan-portability", "webgl", "spirv", "glsl", "wgsl", "naga-ir", "strict_asserts", "serde", "replay", "counters", "fragile-send-sync-non-atomic-wasm", "static-dxc"] }- default = dx12, metal, webgpu, wgsl
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These default features are set whenever
wgpuis added withoutdefault-features = false - dx12 default
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Backends
⚠️ WIP: Not all backends can be manually configured today. On Windows, Linux & Android the Vulkan & GLES backends are always enabled. See #3514 for more details.
Enables the DX12 backend on Windows.
- metal default
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Enables the Metal backend on macOS & iOS.
- webgpu default
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Enables the WebGPU backend on Wasm. Disabled when targeting
emscripten. - angle
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Enables the GLES backend via ANGLE on macOS using.
- vulkan-portability
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Enables the Vulkan backend on macOS & iOS.
- webgl
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Enables the GLES backend on Wasm
* ⚠️ WIP: Currently will also enable GLES dependencies on any other targets. - spirv
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Note: In the documentation, if you see that an item depends on a backend, it means that the item is only available when that backend is enabled and the backend is supported on the current platform.
Shading language support
Enable accepting SPIR-V shaders as input.
Enables spv-in of naga, spirv of wgpu-core
Affects
util::make_spirv… - glsl
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Enable accepting GLSL shaders as input.
- wgsl default
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Enable accepting WGSL shaders as input.
Enables wgsl of optional wgpu-core
Affects
dispatch::InstanceInterface.wgsl_language_features… - naga-ir
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Enable accepting naga IR shaders as input.
Enables naga
- strict_asserts
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Logging & Tracing
The following features do not have any effect on the WebGPU backend.
Apply run-time checks, even in release builds. These are in addition to the validation carried out at public APIs in all builds.
Enables strict_asserts of optional wgpu-core and wgpu-types
- serde replay?
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Enables serialization via
serdeon common wgpu types. - replay = serde
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Allow deserializing of trace capture files that were written with the
tracefeature. To replay a trace file use the wgpu player. - counters
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Other
Internally count resources and events for debugging purposes. If the counters feature is disabled, the counting infrastructure is removed from the build and the exposed counters always return 0.
- fragile-send-sync-non-atomic-wasm
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Implement
SendandSyncon Wasm, but only if atomics are not enabled.WebGL/WebGPU objects can not be shared between threads. However, it can be useful to artificially mark them as
SendandSyncanyways to make it easier to write cross-platform code. This is technically very unsafe in a multithreaded environment, but on a wasm binary compiled without atomics we know we are definitely not in a multithreaded environment.Enables fragile-send-sync-non-atomic-wasm of wgpu-hal, wgpu-core, and wgpu-types
- static-dxc
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External libraries
The following features facilitate integration with third-party supporting libraries.
Enables statically linking DXC. Normally, to use the modern DXC shader compiler with WGPU, the final application must be shipped alongside
dxcompiler.dllanddxil.dll(which can be downloaded from Microsoft's GitHub). This feature statically links a version of DXC so that no external binaries are required to compile DX12 shaders.Enables static-dxc of wgpu-hal
Features from optional dependencies
In crates that don't use the dep: syntax, optional dependencies automatically become Cargo features. These features may have been created by mistake, and this functionality may be removed in the future.