As its long long name suggested.
Thanks to @shincurry for contributing to the UI of this project.
Download lastest Vulkan SDK at https://vulkan.lunarg.com/sdk/home.
At the time of this README.md wrote, 1.2.131.2 was the newest version for macOS.
brew install protobuf
# clone this repo first
git clone --depth=1 https://github.com/BlueCocoa/waifu2x-ncnn-vulkan-macos
# download lastest Vulkan SDK
export VULKAN_SDK_VER="1.2.131.2"
wget https://sdk.lunarg.com/sdk/download/${VULKAN_SDK_VER}/mac/vulkansdk-macos-${VULKAN_SDK_VER}.tar.gz?Human=true -O vulkansdk-macos-${VULKAN_SDK_VER}.tar.gz
tar xf vulkansdk-macos-${VULKAN_SDK_VER}.tar.gz
rm -rf waifu2x-ncnn-vulkan-macos/waifu2x/VulkanSDK
mv vulkansdk-macos-${VULKAN_SDK_VER} waifu2x-ncnn-vulkan-macos/waifu2x/VulkanSDK
# clone Tencent/ncnn
# (At the time of writing) https://github.com/Tencent/ncnn/tree/4fead31beabf96c375741bd12672ca616d535322
git clone --depth=1 https://github.com/Tencent/ncnn ncnn
# clone nihui/waifu2x-ncnn-vulkan
# (At the time of writing) https://github.com/nihui/waifu2x-ncnn-vulkan/commit/ff7bc433612f4daf6a9fefcaa867b992b5c60196
rm -rf waifu2x-ncnn-vulkan-macos/waifu2x/waifu2x-ncnn-vulkan
git clone --depth=1 https://github.com/nihui/waifu2x-ncnn-vulkan waifu2x-ncnn-vulkan-macos/waifu2x/waifu2x-ncnn-vulkan
# check your cmake installation
which cmake
# if it goes with /Applications/CMake.app/Contents/bin/cmake
# then you need to install it in /usr/local/bin via follow command
sudo "/Applications/CMake.app/Contents/bin/cmake-gui" --install
# build ncnn
cp -f waifu2x-ncnn-vulkan-macos/waifu2x/CMakeLists-waifu2x-ncnn-vulkan.txt ncnn/CMakeLists.txt
rm -rf ncnn/build && mkdir -p ncnn/build && pushd ncnn/build
cmake -DNCNN_VULKAN=ON -D CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release ..
make -j`sysctl -n hw.ncpu` && make install
cp -rf install/* ../../waifu2x-ncnn-vulkan-macos/waifu2x/ncnn
# compile waifu2x-ncnn-vulkan-macos
# and the compiled application will be placed at `build/Release/waifu2x-gui.app`
cd waifu2x-ncnn-vulkan-macos
xcodebuildAfter the first compilation, if you want to modify this project only, you may set those flags in Build Phases -> Run Script to false to avoid recompile ncnn and regenerate shader.
