egorodet commented 2 years ago

Methane Kit v0.6 Post-Release Hot-Fixes

Samples apps:
- Attempted replacement of PerlinNoise with FastNoise2 library, but reverted it back because of no ARM support for M1 Macs (see FastNoise2 issue)
Graphics libraries:
- Fixed runtime errors in GPU profiling builds with METHANE_GPU_PROFILING_ENABLED=ON:
- DirectX GPU timestamps re-calibration issue leading to GPU ranges shifting was fixed.
- Fixed command list execution waiting threads synchronisation in Profiling builds in Typography tutorial.
- Fixed resources retaining in command lists. Retained resources were incorrectly cleared on CommandList::Reset(), while they should be cleared on CommandList::Commit().
- Fixed DirectX descriptor heaps allocations after Context::Reset() by always using deferred heap allocation in all cases. Deferred heap initialisation flag was removed, since it became unconditionally deferred.
- Fixed sporadic hang in CommandQueueTrackingBase::WaitForExecution()
- Fixed sporadic crash on destruction of CommandQueueTrackingBase with proper shutdown procedure called from destructor of derived class.
- Fixed Vulkan build and some initialisation errors on MacOS.
Tests:
- All unit tests were updated to support breaking changes in Catch v3.
- Point<T,size> wrapper class was extended with workarounds of MacOS & ARM specific bugs in HLSL++ integer vector comparison and division operators (see 1 and 2).
- Logging of Point, Rect and RectSize values was added in DataTypes unit tests.
External libraries:
- External dependencies management via Git submodules was replaced with CPM.cmake package manager. No submodules anymore - it greatly simplifies external library updates!
- All externally dependent repositories are downloaded to CPM cache directory during CMake configuration stage, to Build/Output/ExternalsCache by default (it can be changed with CMake option CPM_SOURCE_CACHE).
- When CMake project is configured under CLion, external repositories are downloaded to individual build directories of each configuration to workaround parallel cache update collision issue of the CPM.cmake.
- New README.md description of the external dependencies was added in Externals directory.
- Almost all libraries were updated to latest version, except SPIRV-Cross and DirectX Shader Compiler pre-built binary tools.
Build infrastructure:
- Root CMakeLists.txt was simplified by moving all compiler configuration options to CMake/MethaneBuildOptions.cmake.
- Use caching of Externals CPM package sources in Azure Pipelines and GitHub Workflows to speedup builds.
- MacOS builders were switched from v10.15 to v11.