SDL_GPUShader(3type)

💖 SDL_GPUShader 💖

okay bestie, welcome to the SDL3 DATATYPES corner of the manual, this one's a lil baby page but she's important fr fr 🎀

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✨ NAME ✨

SDL_GPUShader — an opaque handle representing a compiled shader object. 👑

like, that's it, that's the whole vibe. it's a handle. it's opaque. it's a shader that already got compiled. you don't poke at her insides, you just hold her and use her 🫶

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

#include <SDL3/SDL_gpu.h>

typedef struct SDL_GPUShader SDL_GPUShader;

so you pull in the header, and boom, SDL_GPUShader is a typedef'd struct you can point at. the struct itself stays mysterious on purpose — main character energy, no cap 💅

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🦋 AVAILABILITY 🦋

this struct is available since SDL 3.2.0. so if you're on anything older, it's giving nothing, upgrade bestie ✨

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🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

• SDL_CreateGPUShader(3) — how you actually make one of these 💖
• SDL_CreateGPUGraphicsPipeline(3) — where your shader goes to be part of a bigger fit 🔥
• SDL_ReleaseGPUShader(3) — clean up after yourself, be a good citizen 🧚

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lowkey reminder: it's opaque, so don't go digging inside the struct, you literally can't and you shouldn't even try 🙈

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Simple Directmedia Layer • SDL 3.4.18 — mwah, that's a wrap, tysm for reading, go compile something iconic ⭐👑💜