diff --git a/source/blender/gpu/glsl_preprocess/glsl_preprocess.cc b/source/blender/gpu/glsl_preprocess/glsl_preprocess.cc
index b2319588e42..832a3280512 100644
--- a/source/blender/gpu/glsl_preprocess/glsl_preprocess.cc
+++ b/source/blender/gpu/glsl_preprocess/glsl_preprocess.cc
@@ -59,6 +59,7 @@ int main(int argc, char **argv)
       };
 
   const bool is_info = std::string(output_file_name).find("info.hh") != std::string::npos;
+  const bool is_glsl = std::string(output_file_name).find(".glsl") != std::string::npos;
 
   if (is_info) {
     std::cerr << "File " << output_file_name
@@ -68,7 +69,7 @@ int main(int argc, char **argv)
 
   blender::gpu::shader::Preprocessor processor;
 
-  output_file << processor.process(buffer.str(), report_error);
+  output_file << processor.process(buffer.str(), true, is_glsl, is_glsl, report_error);
 
   input_file.close();
   output_file.close();
diff --git a/source/blender/gpu/glsl_preprocess/glsl_preprocess.hh b/source/blender/gpu/glsl_preprocess/glsl_preprocess.hh
index 94dac8afe2a..d8dd0429b30 100644
--- a/source/blender/gpu/glsl_preprocess/glsl_preprocess.hh
+++ b/source/blender/gpu/glsl_preprocess/glsl_preprocess.hh
@@ -23,7 +23,9 @@ namespace blender::gpu::shader {
  * Implementation speed is not a huge concern as we only apply this at compile time or on python
  * shaders source.
  */
-template<bool no_linting = false> class Preprocessor {
+class Preprocessor {
+  using uint = unsigned int;
+
   struct SharedVar {
     std::string type;
     std::string name;
@@ -36,7 +38,11 @@ template<bool no_linting = false> class Preprocessor {
  public:
   /* Takes a whole source file and output processed source. */
   template<typename ReportErrorF>
-  std::string process(std::string str, const ReportErrorF &report_error)
+  std::string process(std::string str,
+                      bool do_linting,
+                      bool do_string_mutation,
+                      bool do_include_mutation,
+                      const ReportErrorF &report_error)
   {
     str = remove_comments(str, report_error);
     threadgroup_variable_parsing(str);
@@ -48,10 +54,11 @@ template<bool no_linting = false> class Preprocessor {
     return str + suffix();
   }
 
+  /* Variant use for python shaders. */
   std::string process(const std::string &str)
   {
     auto no_err_report = [](std::string, std::smatch, const char *) {};
-    return process(str, no_err_report);
+    return process(str, false, false, false, no_err_report);
   }
 
  private:
@@ -137,9 +144,6 @@ template<bool no_linting = false> class Preprocessor {
   template<typename ReportErrorF>
   void matrix_constructor_linting(std::string str, const ReportErrorF &report_error)
   {
-    if constexpr (no_linting) {
-      return;
-    }
     /* Example: `mat4(other_mat)`. */
     std::regex regex("\\s+(mat(\\d|\\dx\\d)|float\\dx\\d)\\([^,\\s\\d]+\\)");
     for (std::smatch match; std::regex_search(str, match, regex); str = match.suffix()) {
@@ -154,9 +158,6 @@ template<bool no_linting = false> class Preprocessor {
   template<typename ReportErrorF>
   void array_constructor_linting(std::string str, const ReportErrorF &report_error)
   {
-    if constexpr (no_linting) {
-      return;
-    }
     std::regex regex("=\\s*(\\w+)\\s*\\[[^\\]]*\\]\\s*\\(");
     for (std::smatch match; std::regex_search(str, match, regex); str = match.suffix()) {
       /* This only catches some invalid usage. For the rest, the CI will catch them. */
@@ -255,6 +256,4 @@ template<bool no_linting = false> class Preprocessor {
   }
 };
 
-using PreprocessorPython = Preprocessor<true>;
-
 }  // namespace blender::gpu::shader
diff --git a/source/blender/gpu/intern/gpu_shader.cc b/source/blender/gpu/intern/gpu_shader.cc
index 32e32de0dc3..84e7bf135d6 100644
--- a/source/blender/gpu/intern/gpu_shader.cc
+++ b/source/blender/gpu/intern/gpu_shader.cc
@@ -303,7 +303,7 @@ GPUShader *GPU_shader_create_from_info(const GPUShaderCreateInfo *_info)
 
 static std::string preprocess_source(StringRefNull original)
 {
-  gpu::shader::PreprocessorPython processor;
+  gpu::shader::Preprocessor processor;
   return processor.process(original);
 };