TINT(1)

✨ TINT(1) ✨

okay bestie, welcome to tint — the compiler for the WebGPU Shader Language (WGSL) 💅 this is the User Commands girlie and she is, lowkey, carrying your whole shader pipeline on her back 🫶

🌸 NAME 🌸

tint — compiler for the WebGPU Shader Language (WGSL) ✨

🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

tint [options] input-file

like. that's it. that's the whole vibe. one input file, some options, and she works 💖

💜 DESCRIPTION 💜

so tint compiles and validates shaders written in the WebGPU Shader Language (WGSL). she can convert WGSL to SPIR-V, GLSL, or WGSL, and — plot twist — she also accepts SPIR-V as input. versatile queen 👑

by default, the output format is inferred from the output filename extension. no cap, she just looks at it. 🙈

and if you don't specify an output file at all? she writes SPIR-V assembly (spvasm) straight to stdout. periodt. 💫

✨ OPTIONS ✨

• -f format, --format=format — pick your output format, bestie. one of: none, wgsl, ir, spirv, spvasm, glsl 🌈
• -o file, --output-name=file — write the output to file instead of stdout. she's shy, let her write to a file 🎀
• -ep name, --entry-point=name — output only the specified entry point. just the one. the main character 👑
• --validate — validate the generated shader with all available validators. all of them. she's thorough fr fr ✅
• --dump-ir — dump the IR at each stage of the compilation flow. it's giving ✨behind the scenes✨
• --parse-only — stop after parsing the input (useful for validation only). she reads it, she understands it, she does not go further 💀
• -h, --help — show usage information. the classic. the icon. the moment. 🙌

🦋 EXAMPLES 🦋

validate a WGSL shader:

tint shader.wgsl

compile WGSL to SPIR-V binary:

tint shader.wgsl -o shader.spv

compile WGSL to GLSL:

tint --format glsl shader.wgsl

compile SPIR-V to WGSL:

tint shader.spv --format wgsl

not her going both directions, we love a bilingual queen 🌈💅

💖 SEE ALSO 💖

• tint_info(1) — her sister, also iconic 🫶

🧚 HOMEPAGE 🧚

https://dawn.googlesource.com/dawn 🌸

bestie if you got this far, go compile something. i believe in you fr fr 💜

okay that's the whole page, mwah 😭💖 this was Dawn, dated 2026-04-17, and yes this is TINT(1) signing off — slay, stay validated, don't skip the --validate ✨