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Building and running filament samples in MacOS
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Building filament on MacOS

Prereqs

brew install cmake ninja pkg-config git

Build

With Unix Make:

git clone --recursive https://github.com/google/filament.git
cd filament
mkdir out
cd out
cmake ../ -G Ninja -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release -DBUILD_SAMPLES=ON -DCMAKE_OSX_ARCHITECTURES=arm64
make -j

With Ninja:

git clone --recursive https://github.com/google/filament.git
cd filament
mkdir out
cd out
cmake ../ -G Ninja -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release -DBUILD_SAMPLES=ON -DCMAKE_OSX_ARCHITECTURES=arm64
ninja

Run samples

# sample gltf loader and viewer
./samples/gltf_viewer

# sample animation
./samples/animation

# run with multiple backends
./samples/hellotriangle -a opengl
./samples/hellotriangle -a vulkan
./samples/hellotriangle -a metal

# there are lots more samples
ls ./samples

# explore how samples work and are layed out
tree ./samples

Debug builds

Build debuggable samples with builtin build.sh:

git clone --recursive https://github.com/google/filament.git
cd filament
./build.sh -p desktop debug gltf_viewer
./out/cmake-debug/samples/gltf_viewer
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