spirv-cross command not found

Introduction

When you run more command in linux terminal / console, you get the following error message

spirv-cross: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: spirv-cross: command not found

Solutions to spirv-cross: command not found

How To Fix spirv-cross: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu spirv-cross is provided by spirv-cross package.

spirv-cross is:

SPIRV-Cross is a tool designed for parsing and converting SPIR-V to other shader languages:

• Convert SPIR-V to readable, usable and efficient GLSL
• Convert SPIR-V to readable, usable and efficient MSL
• Convert SPIR-V to readable, usable and efficient HLSL
• Reflection API to simplify the creation of Vulkan pipeline layouts
• Reflection API to modify and tweak OpDecorations
• Supports “all” of vertex, fragment, tessellation, geometry and compute shaders

To fix this problem, we can install more using the command below.

sudo apt-get -y install spirv-cross

This command might take some time to finish depending on your machine internet connection.

You can also use apt command to install spirv-cross.

sudo apt -y install spirv-cross

Or if you have aptitude installed you can use the following command.

sudo aptitude install spirv-cross

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to fix spirv-cross command not found error in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux or Raspbian distribution.