SushilGujar / webrender

A GPU-based renderer for the web

WebRender

GPU renderer for the Web content, used by Servo.

Update as a Dependency

After updating shaders in WebRender, go to servo and:

• Go to the servo directory and do ./mach update-cargo -p webrender
• Create a pull request to servo

Use WebRender with Servo

To use a custom WebRender with servo, go to your servo build directory and:

• Edit Cargo.toml
• Add at the end of the file:

[replace]
"https://github.com/servo/webrender#0.36.0" = { path = 'Path/To/webrender/webrender/' }
"https://github.com/servo/webrender#webrender_api:0.36.0" = { path = 'Path/To/webrender/webrender_api' }

The exact replace references can be obtained with cargo pkgid webrender/cargo pkgid webrender_api command.

• Build as normal

Documentation

The Wiki has a few pages describing the internals and conventions of WebRender.