Building a Library with Metal’s Command-Line Tools
- Use the
metaltool to compile each.metalfile into a single.airfile, which stores an intermediate representation of Metal Shading Language source code. - Optionally, use the
metal-artool to archive several.airfiles together into a single.metalarfile. (Themetal-artool is similar to the UNIXartool.) - Use the
metallibtool to build.airor.metalarfiles into a single.metallibfile, which stores the Metal library.
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xcrun -sdk macosx metal -c MyLibrary.metal -o MyLibrary.air
xcrun -sdk macosx metallib MyLibrary.air -o MyLibrary.metallib