Integration into another project, documentation

[selimsandal]

Hi,

I've integrated slang-rhi to my project using this repository. I see that merging the codebase with slang is planned #348. Does this mean all slang-rhi source will be moved to the slang repository or is it going stay as a submodule of slang for now?

Here is my current setup:

if(CMAKE_CONFIGURATION_TYPES)
    set(SLANG_RHI_BINARY_DIR "${OUTPUT_DIR}/$<CONFIG>" CACHE STRING "" FORCE)
else()
    set(SLANG_RHI_BINARY_DIR "${OUTPUT_DIR}" CACHE STRING "" FORCE)
endif()

FetchContent_Declare(
        slang-rhi
        GIT_REPOSITORY https://github.com/shader-slang/slang-rhi.git
        GIT_TAG main
        GIT_SHALLOW TRUE
)
FetchContent_MakeAvailable(slang-rhi)

target_link_libraries(${PROJECT_NAME} PRIVATE
        slang-rhi
        slang
)

add_dependencies(${PROJECT_NAME} slang-rhi-copy-files)

I add the slang-rhi-copy-files target to copy slang.dll to my binary dir, which is needed for slang-rhi to run (even if static linking is enabled, since slang is downloaded as binary). I also add the slang target to my library list since slang exposes it. Should I do that or compile slang separately?

[bmillsNV]

We don't have immediate plans to merge Slang-rhi to slang. For now copying is recommended.

[selimsandal]

We don't have immediate plans to merge Slang-rhi to slang. For now copying is recommended.

Thanks for the clarification! Is my cmake config correct (copy files target and compiling slang?) I saw other repos copying the files automatically when instantiated as a submodule, I can help set that up.