Building Google Dawn w/ CMake

CMakeLists.txt

cmake_minimum_required(VERSION 3.25)
project(dawn_compile)

set(CMAKE_CXX_STANDARD 17)


add_executable(dawn_compile main.cpp)

include_directories(dawn_compile ${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR}/libraries/dawn/include)
include_directories(dawn_compile ${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR}/libraries/dawn/gen/include)

# 12-16 Assumes you built with DirectX - adjust as needed
find_library(DIRECTX_LIBRARY NAMES d3d11)
find_library(DIRECTX_DXGUID NAMES dxguid)
target_link_libraries(dawn_compile "${DIRECTX_LIBRARY}")
target_link_libraries(dawn_compile "${DIRECTX_DXGUID}")

target_link_libraries(dawn_compile libraries/libs/webgpu_dawn.lib)
target_link_libraries(dawn_compile libraries/libs/dawn_native.lib)
target_link_libraries(dawn_compile libraries/libs/dawn_common.lib)
target_link_libraries(dawn_compile libraries/libs/dawn_headers.lib)
target_link_libraries(dawn_compile libraries/libs/dawn_platform.lib)
target_link_libraries(dawn_compile libraries/libs/dawn_proc.lib)
target_link_libraries(dawn_compile libraries/libs/dawncpp.lib)
target_link_libraries(dawn_compile libraries/libs/dawncpp_headers.lib)

target_link_libraries(dawn_compile libraries/libs/tint.lib)
target_link_libraries(dawn_compile libraries/libs/tint_utils_io.lib)
target_link_libraries(dawn_compile libraries/libs/tint_val.lib)
target_link_libraries(dawn_compile libraries/libs/tint_diagnostic_utils.lib)

target_link_libraries(dawn_compile libraries/libs/absl_str_format_internal.lib)
target_link_libraries(dawn_compile libraries/libs/absl_strings.lib)
target_link_libraries(dawn_compile libraries/libs/absl_base.lib)
target_link_libraries(dawn_compile libraries/libs/absl_strings_internal.lib)
target_link_libraries(dawn_compile libraries/libs/absl_int128.lib)
target_link_libraries(dawn_compile libraries/libs/absl_malloc_internal.lib)
target_link_libraries(dawn_compile libraries/libs/absl_raw_logging_internal.lib)
target_link_libraries(dawn_compile libraries/libs/absl_throw_delegate.lib)



target_link_libraries(dawn_compile libraries/libs/SPIRV-Tools.lib)
target_link_libraries(dawn_compile libraries/libs/SPIRV-Tools-opt.lib)

This is more for my own reference but for anyone that stumbles across this - this is so far the basics of what's needed to compile a standard build of Google's Dawn library as of 6/8/2023.

This assumes some things

• That you're doing a standard build with no real changes to the default options other than possibly not building some optional dependencies like GTest, etc.
• That you're including DirectX support
• All of the libraries are located in a folder called libraries at your root

As far as header files, I have the include folder at the root of the Dawn repo in the root of my project folder. I also include the gen folder that is generated once you build Dawn. The project folder basically looks like

  libraries
    - dawn 
      - gen 
      - include
   - libs

So far this is enough to declare a dawn::native::Instance object without errors; that said it might still need more adjustments for Dawn to be fully usable.

Adjust as needed