In this tutorial we'll be using the 64-bit binaries, but you can of course alsoĬhoose to build in 32 bit mode. You can find the latest release of GLFW on the official website. It also abstracts away some of the other platform-specific things in Vulkan Purpose, like SDL, but the advantage of GLFW is that There are other libraries available for this We'll use the GLFW library to create a window, which To benefitįrom the cross-platform advantages of Vulkan and to avoid the horrors of Win32, Include tools for creating a window to display the rendered results. GLFWĪs mentioned before, Vulkan by itself is a platform agnostic API and does not Feel free to explore the other files, but we won't need them for this tutorial. Lastly, there's the Include directory that contains the Vulkan headers.

The Bin directory also contains the binaries of the Vulkan loaderĪnd the validation layers, while the Lib directory contains the libraries. We'll cover this in depth in the shader modulesĬhapter. The glslangValidator.exe and glslc.exe programs will be used to compile shaders from theīytecode. There is another program in this directory that will be useful for development. Introduction chapter for links to drivers from the major Include the Vulkan runtime and that your graphics card is supported. If you receive an error message then ensure that your drivers are up-to-date, The Bin directory and run the vkcube.exe demo. Go to the directory where you installed the SDK, open

The first thing we'll do is verify that your graphics card and driver Proceed through the installation and pay attention to the install location of You don't have to create anĪccount, but it will give you access to some additional documentation that may Using the buttons at the bottom of the page. The SDK can be downloaded from the LunarG website The loader looks up the functions in theĭriver at runtime, similarly to GLEW for OpenGL - if you're familiar with that. It includes the headers, standard validation layers, debugging toolsĪnd a loader for the Vulkan functions.

The most important component you'll need for developing Vulkan applications is The steps outlined below were written for VS 2017. For complete C++17 support, you need to use either If you're developing for Windows, then I will assume that you are using Visual Steps for installing them differ a bit, which is why they're described All of the tools we'll use, with theĮxception of the compiler, are compatible with Windows, Linux and MacOS, but the

In this chapter we'll set up your environment for developing Vulkan applicationsĪnd install some useful libraries.

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