Optionally disable vulkano

[omarandlorraine]

For my own project, I want to incorporate a MIPS emulator, and I am considering using trapezoid-core for this.

My issue is that this ends up pulling in lots of dependencies that have nothing to do with my task. Most of this is vulkano and vulkano-shaders.

Would you accept a pull-request which enables these by default but lets a user disable them?

Could be related to issue #54.

[Amjad50]

Hey this is very interesting project.

Of course I'm open to any contribution and this feature is very nice actually.

For now you can make the GPU ignore rendering commands, this might make some games fail (not sure if some games rely on correct rendering for them to work properly).
Maybe I'll try to make cpu renderer later.

But I guess you only care about mips cpu.

Thanks for working on this.

[Amjad50]

@omarandlorraine New version 0.1.3 is released with latest PR.

I'll also add improvements later on removing other deps, but vulkano is the largest anyway and have most impact

[omarandlorraine]

Thank you for your cooperation, feedback and help! To contribute to your project has been a positive experience.

[Amjad50]

btw just noticed, how are you planning to use trapezoid-core, do you just need the Cpu?
because currently, you can't actually create new Cpu instance, the API only allow u to modify aspects that are used by the debugger.

And also I noticed the public API isn't working without vulkan feature since we are not exposing the Device, Queue, etc...
Fixed here and among other improvemnts. #65

[omarandlorraine]

btw just noticed, how are you planning to use trapezoid-core, do you just need the Cpu?

I need to be able to instantiate the CPU, and write a function to memory, and call that function. My guess is this means I need to be able to instantiate a MainRam.

I'm also running into a problem with the trapezoid_core::cpu::instruction module being private. strop also decodes instructions to do static analysis on putative instruction sequences; it would be great if this could be made public, as well as the ability to interpret a u32 as an Instruction, and the ability to format these to human readable assembly.

Do you think this is feasible, or I appreciate I'm asking a lot here

[Amjad50]

Yea, no problem, not much change, it's just changing some stuff to pub