csherratt / 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 local copy of WebRender with servo, go to your servo build directory and:

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

[patch."https://github.com/servo/webrender"]
"webrender" = { path = "<path>/webrender" }
"webrender_api" = { path = "<path>/webrender_api" }

where <path> is the path to your local copy of WebRender.

• Build as normal

Documentation

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