egorodet commented 3 years ago

Methane Kit v0.6 Pre-Release Update 2

Linux platform GUI support and CMake presets were added in this update:

Platform libraries:
- Platform::AppLin implementation based on X11/XCB libraries for Linux was added (close #11), which allows to create GUI Window for rendering on Linux desktop with support of:
- Window resizing and full-screen mode.
- Keyboard and Mouse events translation.
- Message box with text message and buttons drawing via X11/XCB.
- Window icon loaded from PNG resources.
- Command line help and parsing errors are now printed to the console output, instead of showing in message box.
- Input::Keyboard::State and Input::Mouse::State conversion to string was fixed, more functionality of these classes was covered with unit tests.
Graphics libraries:
- BufferVK Vulkan implementation was extended with support of private and staging GPU buffers for data upload from CPU.
- DeviceVK Vulkan comman queue families reservation was fixed in certain scenarios.
- RenderContextVK Vulkan frame buffer index update and frame resizing were fixed on Linux.
- System singleton is now destroyed strictly after all its Devices to enable correct Vulkan destruction order.
External libraries:
- CMakeModules updated to auto-detect Win11 2110 SDK with FindWindowsSDK.cmake.
Build Infrastructure:
- Minimum CMake version is now 3.18.
- CMakePresets.json file was added with predefined configure and build presets for "Ninja Multi-Config" and platform native generators "Visual Studio 16 2019", "Xcode" and "Unix Makefiles".
- Azure Pipelines builds are now using CMake Presets as a single source of build configurations for Release, Profile and SonarScan builds for all platforms.
- Ubuntu_VK_Profiling build was added to Azure Pipelines.
- Azure Pipelines builds for Linux and MacOS are now publishing build artifacts as TAR archives to keep executable file permissions unchanged.
- GitPod should now auto-install required Linux packages and support preview of the UI window on remote machine.
- Fixed tests running during build, which was broken due to missing CMake command dependency.
- Removed ReSharper configuration files Folder.DotSettings and .editorconfig from repository.
- Removed Visual Studio CMake configuration file CMakeSettings.json. CMakePresets.json should be used instead.