MariFX Shader Suite

[Rachael]

Why would each vendor have different glsl syntax?

They all write their own compilers and they want to be like Microsoft, inventing their own standards as they go along.

[Graf Zahl]

The main problem is incompetence. The standard was poorly defined so everybody did the needed extensions their own way.
Fortunately for Vulkan saner heads prevailed and the defined an assembly-like representation with a reference compiler. In general, when compiling shaders, it is strongly recommended to test them with the Vulkan backend. If that works, it should work everywhere, if that doesn't work on some OpenGL driver it's a compiler bug that needs to be reported.

Regarding Microsoft, the biggest problem they were facing over the years was that they needed compiler extensions to handle native Windows features, like structured exception handling. Good luck getting that into a compiler like GCC or Clang. Combine such a problem with a CEO like Steve Ballmer and the result is inevitably problematic. Their more recent compilers are magnitudes better in terms of compliance than what they had been producing in the two decades before.

[Remaker]

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Execution could not continue.
Compile Shader 'shaders/glsl/mfx_borderblur.fp':
ERROR: 0:7: ']' : syntax error: syntax error

I can't tell for sure if there's more...

[Marisa Kirisame]

Looks like a typo, I patched it up.

[Remaker]

Looks like a typo, I patched it up.

Thank you so much, Marisa! It worked!