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Assessment

Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Newbie friendliness
25/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
cpp

Research direction

Start with the referenced DirectML repository commit and the NuGet packaging context described in the issue. Investigate how access to the latest DirectML is provided and how the 32-bit and 64-bit DLLs are produced for the Unity build process. The issue does not name a file or test, and completion criteria are not fully defined.

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Description

How do you get access to the latest DirectML which is referenced by many projects?
https://github.com/search?q=a5312f72c51864b4d705ac62d25d08bcd88c4fb1&type=code

directml_repo
GIT_REPOSITORY https://dev.azure.com/microsoft/WindowsAI/_git/DirectML
GIT_TAG a5312f72c51864b4d705ac62d25d08bcd88c4fb1
GIT_SHALLOW OFF # not allowed when GIT_TAG is a commit SHA, which is preferred (it's stable, unlike branches)
GIT_PROGRESS ON
BUILD_IN_SOURCE ON

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It was necessary to build DirectML and OnnxRuntime from source because the 32-bit DLLs are not on Nuget. Also I need the 32-bit and 64-bit DLLs to have unique names for the Unity build process to avoid collisions.

I prefer suffixes like:

./x64/DirectML64.dll
./x64/onnxruntime64.dll
./x64/onnxruntime_providers_shared64.dll
./x86/DirectML32.dll
./x86/onnxruntime32.dll
./x86/onnxruntime_providers_shared32.dll
Dominant language
C++
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First steps

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