VKDT

A Vulkan Abstraction to Help Developers

Introduction

VKDT is a small & extensible C++ library to help speed up the development process of Vulkan, it has a Singleton/OOP approach, with classes and a global objects file for editing & extending the classes inside VKDT

Installation

1. Download the entire project.
2. Setup Makefile
   1. Configure the INC_DIR, INC_LIB, INC_DYLIB, and INC_FLAGS
   2. If needed, change the compiler from clang++ to one of your choice
3. Setup Environment Variables FOR MACOS ONLY
   1. Add a .zshrc with VK_ICD_FILENAMES & VK_LAYER_PATH set to the lib folder
4. Run Makefile
   • Type make into the terminal to build the sample project
   • Type make debug into the terminal to build the sample project with debugging

Documentation

Documentation can be found in the DOCUMENTATION folder

Extending VKDT

Each class will have two booleans called debug and verbose. These are for making sure that your code will be able to debug important information and conform with what the validation layers expect you to setup. There will be a Vulkan Object to edit in the class as well. If needed, you can access other Vulkan / VKDT Objects using the _vkdt/pObjects.h header. These will contain pointers to all Vulkan Objects for you edit.

TODO

• Debug function can lead to crashes when trying to debug vkdt::debug::messageData.objectName