Technical choices

AmanithVG has been designed to run everywhere. To accomplish this task the development process has followed strict technical choices:

• Use of pure ANSI C language, avoiding the use of any third party libraries.

• Use of advanced caching techniques at different levels (curve flattening, stroking).

• High and easy customization capability through simple hardware independent thresholds.

• Modular and flexible architecture to simplify new extensions integration.

• Fast and robust fixed-point polygon triangulation (GLE).

• Minimization of the CPU usage, moving the most complex tasks on the 3D chipset / GPU (GLE).

• Dynamic rendering pipelines, according to underlying 3D hardware features / extensions (GLE).

• Use of few smart software fallbacks on very old hardware (GLE).

• Fast and robust fixed-point polygon rasterizer (SRE).

• Use of dedicated optimized scanline fillers, instead of a slow monolithic pixel pipeline (SRE).

Supported platforms

AmanithVG can be (cross)compiled for the following target platforms:

• Windows XP / Vista / 7 / 8 / 10 / 11, on x86, x86_64, compilable with:
  • Microsoft (R) C/C++ Optimizing Compiler Version 19.16.27043 (or higher) for x86
  • Microsoft (R) C/C++ Optimizing Compiler Version 19.16.27043 (or higher) for x86_64
  • mingw-w64 (gcc 6.3.0 or higher) for x86 and x86_64
• MacOS X 10.15 or higher, (Universal Binary), on ARM v8a, x86_64 compilable with:
  • Xcode version 14.0 or higher (clang-1400 or higher)
• Linux 2.6.x or higher, on x86, x86_64, ARM v5, ARM v6 (with or without VFPv2), ARM v7a, ARM v8a, mipsel, mips64el, ppc64el, compilable with:
  • gcc version 6.3.0 or higher
• Windows CE / Mobile, on ARM v6 (with or without VFPv2), v7 (VFPv3) compilable with:
  • arm-mingw32ce version 2020-03-23-amd64 (gcc 9.3.0)
• iOS 11 or higher (Universal Binary, bitcode support), on ARM v8a, x86_64 (simulator) compilable with:
  • Xcode version 14.0 or higher (clang-1400 or higher)
• Android, on ARM v7a, ARM v8a, x86, x86_64, compilable with:
  • Android NDK 25c or higher (Android clang version 14.0.7 or higher)
• QNX 6.6 on x86, ARM v7a, compilable with:
  • QNX Momentics Tool Suite 6.6 (gcc 4.7.3)