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metal2vulkan
Translate Metal AIR / LLVM IR to Vulkan SPIR-V with a native Rust emitter
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metal2vulkan
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Alpha. This project is early and under active development. The public API, CLI flags, reflection layout details, and SPIR-V output may change without a stable semver guarantee while the crate is in the
0.xseries. Treat it as research-quality: useful for experimentation and integration pilots, not a frozen interface.
Translate Metal AIR (LLVM bitcode / sanitized .ll) to Vulkan SPIR-V using a native Rust
emitter. Production translation does not invoke LLVM llc.
Features
- Native AIR/LLVM-IR →
OpCapability Shader/ Logical GLSL450 SPIR-V - Stage interface lowering for vertex, fragment, compute (kernel), and passthrough
- Library API plus a CLI compatible with simple
in → out.spvharnesses - Optional
serdefeature for reflection metadata JSON - Optional workspace package for local Metal oracle / Vulkan executor experiments
Install
# CLI
cargo install metal2vulkan
# Library (Cargo.toml)
metal2vulkan = "0.1"
CLI
metal2vulkan --stage vertex|fragment|passthrough|kernel
# optional interface metadata JSON (requires --features serde)
metal2vulkan in.ll out.spv --stage kernel --emit-meta out.json
- Success: prints a line containing
PASS, writes SPIR-V, exits0 - Failure: prints
FALLBACK, exits non-zero
On failure the CLI writes a repro bundle under $TMPDIR/metal2vulkan-repros (override with
METAL2VULKAN_REPRO_DIR).
Example
cargo run --example translate_native -- path/to/shader.ll kernel out.spv
Library
use metal2vulkan::passes::Stage;
use std::path::Path;
fn translate_ll(sanitized_ll: &str) -> Result, String> {
let tmp = std::env::temp_dir().join("m2v-scratch");
std::fs::create_dir_all(&tmp).ok();
metal2vulkan::translate_sanitized_native(sanitized_ll, Stage::Kernel, Path::new(&tmp))
}
See crate docs (cargo doc --open), docs/ARCHITECTURE.md for the
pipeline, and docs/REFLECTION.md for how consumers read binding metadata
after a convert. Repository layout and the developer loop are in
CONTRIBUTING.md. How to stay confident while refactoring (harvest, hash ledgers,
A/B) is in docs/VALIDATION.md.
Coverage policy
Grammar and lowering behavior is locked with synthetic Rust tests. This repository does not
ship third-party captured shaders. Prefer reduced .ll fixtures that name structural properties.
Optional private system-metallib harvest and hash-only drift pins are documented in
docs/VALIDATION.md.
spirv-val coverage is not the same as correct end-to-end pixels.
License
Licensed under the GNU Lesser General Public License v3.0 or later
(LGPL-3.0-or-later).
Metal is a trademark of Apple Inc. metal2vulkan is an independent project and is not affiliated with, sponsored by, or endorsed by Apple Inc.
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