yariv.h is a single C/C++ header to encode and decode SPIR-V shaders into a more compressed form I've called YARI-V.

YARI-V is an alternative encoding of the SPIR-V standard that seeks to reduce the bytes required to encode shaders/kernels. In its default mode, it will losslessly convert a SPIR-V shader module into a corresponding YARI-V encoding with an average compression ratio of 34.42%.

Simply include the yariv.h header in your code, and then to encode, first call:

size_t yariv_encode_size(
  uint32_t encode_flags,
  const void *spirv,
  size_t spirv_size);

To get the size (in bytes) of memory required to hold the encoded YARI-V shader module.

Then call:

int yariv_encode(
  uint32_t encode_flags,
  void *out_yariv,
  size_t yariv_size,
  const void *spirv,
  size_t spirv_size);

Which will return 0 on success, and out_yariv will contain the YARI-V shader module.

Then, to decode, first call:

size_t yariv_decode_size(
  const void *yariv,
  size_t yariv_size);

To get the size (in bytes) of memory required to hold the decoded SPIR-V shader module.

Then call:

int yariv_decode(
  void *out_spirv,
  size_t spirv_size,
  const void *yariv,
  size_t yariv_size);

Which will return 0 on success, and out_spirv will contain the SPIR-V shader module.

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The following folders are held under their own licenses (used for testing purposes only):

• test/external/dota2 - Copyright (c) Valve Corporation, all rights reserved.
• test/external/shadertoy - several most popular shaders from Shadertoy, converted to Vulkan SPIR-V via glslang. Copyrights by their individual authors (filename matches last component of shadertoy URL).
• test/external/talos - Copyright (c) 2002-2016 Croteam, all rights reserved. tests/external/unity - various Unity shaders, produced through a HLSL -> DX11 bytecode -> HLSLcc -> glslang toolchain.