I'm learning Vulkan. Here are some resources that I'm using:
- 📖 Vulkan Cookbook by Pawel Lapinski
- 📺 Vulkan game engine tutorial by Brendan Galea
- 💻 Vulkan Tutorial
- 💻 Vulkan in 30 minutes
- 💻 API without secrets
- 💻 Yet another blog explaining Vulkan synchronization
- 💻 Vulkan Guide
All numbered folders are self-contained projects. Navigate into any folder and type make and then run the program (usually ./a.out).
But, it probably will not work if you don't follow this setup.
Prerequisites: Xcode command line tools. I'm using makefiles, no need to actually run Xcode or install CMake. But, I think Xcode needs to be installed anyway.
Install VulkanSDK, which installs MoltenVK. I installed Vulkan into /Library
my folder structure looked like:
/Library/VulkanSDK/1.3.268.1/macOS/include/vulkan/vulkan.h
This is important. For some reason I need to keep running this after opening every new terminal.
export DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH=/Library/VulkanSDK/1.3.268.1/macOS/lib
I also ran these. Not sure how important these are.
export VK_ICD_FILENAMES=/Library/VulkanSDK/1.3.268.1/MoltenVK/dylib/macOS/MoltenVK_icd.json
export VULKAN_SDK=/Library/VulkanSDK/1.3.268.1
my pkgconfig was messed up. I had to install
brew install zeromq
brew install pkgconfig
Not needed for all dev environments, but I will use GLFW and GLM, so, install these:
brew install glfw
brew install glm
due to unrelated issues that I fixed, I ran this, but I suspect that I entirely did not need to:
brew install glew glfw3
brew install --cask xquartz
Every project has an .env file. You have to modify it to match the location of the Vulkan SDK on your computer.
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