2.18.0 October 2023 Update

[Perksey]

Silk.NET October 2023 Update

• Added SPIR-V Reflect bindings
• Added SPIR-V Cross bindings
• Added Shaderc bindings
• Added WIC/WindowsCodecs bindings (thanks @hez2010)
• Added multi-channel formats support for OpenAL (thanks @aleksrutins)
• Added EffectTarget support for OpenAL Soft (thanks @okaniku, @doobah)
• Added MoltenVK support for iOS (massive thank you to @zvasya for contributing and testing)
• Added macOS support for the CreateWebGPUSurface helper function (thanks @AsgardXIV)
• Added the ability to load MoltenVK directly as a fallback should the Vulkan Loader be unavailable on macOS
• Added trimming support with an option to enable/disable static-linking support at link time
• Added WinRT interoperability support for Direct3D 11.
• Added the ability to query extensions from specific Vulkan layers using the Silk.NET helpers
• Added extension methods on IGamepad to return Thumbstick state instead of requiring use of the indexers (thanks @jvyden)
• Added ref properties for Vulkan chain constituents (thanks @Khitiara)
• Added Apple Silicon binaries for Assimp (thanks @jschieck)
• Added compatibility with Linux distributions using as early as glibc 2.16
• Added equality operators and IEquatable to Bool32 (thanks @Syncaidius)
• Added ToSystem/ToGeneric as extension methods (rather than plain static functions) to convert to/from Silk.NET.Maths types (thanks @Wafer-EX)
• Added discriminant values to PinObjectMarshaller to tie pinned handles to state to which the pin pertains
• Updated to Vulkan 1.3.266
• Updated to OpenXR 1.0.30
• Updated to SDL 2.28.1
• Updated to MoltenVK 1.2.5
• Updated to latest WebGPU headers
• Updated to latest OpenCL specifications
• Updated to latest OpenGL specifications
• Improved allocations in the Silk.NET Loader (thanks @Youssef1313)
• Improved robustness of HLU on AOT compilations
• Fixed WGPU not loading with the correct filename on Windows
• Fixed COM V-Table indices not matching the Clang-reported V-Table index in some cases (DirectWrite/D2D1/DComp)
• Fixed OpenAL throwing when loading an extension prefixed with ALC_ instead AL_
• Fixed WGL.GetApi throwing a NotImplementedException
• Fixed library loading failing on platforms that do not have a libdl.so symlink (we are now using libdl.so.2, thanks @CasualPokePlayer)
• Fixed a StackOverflowException when using SetWindowIcon in some cases with Silk.NET.Windowing
• Fixed GLFW crashing in some cases where multiple windows are used
• Fixed WebGPU using the incorrect size for booleans
• Fixed a memory leak with some string marshalling functions

If you are using Silk.NET with an iOS or Android application, please enable trimming and set TrimMode to full.

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This discussion was created from the release 2.18.0 October 2023 Update.

[jvyden]

hi mom!