Higher-dimensional renderer implemented in Vulkan. This is mainly a reseach project.

Currently only Ubuntu is actively supported, however you might be able to run it on other Linux distributions.

Documentation will be available in the future.

• Vulkan SDK
• GLFW
• GLM
• Some other platform specific headers
• Git, Bazel, Clang

Install these dependencies:

wget -qO - https://packages.lunarg.com/lunarg-signing-key-pub.asc | sudo apt-key add -
sudo wget -qO /etc/apt/sources.list.d/lunarg-vulkan-1.2.198-focal.list https://packages.lunarg.com/vulkan/1.2.198/lunarg-vulkan-1.2.198-focal.list
sudo apt update && sudo apt install vulkan-sdk mesa-common-dev libglfw3 libglfw3-dev libglm-dev libxrandr-dev libxinerama-dev libxcursor-dev libxi-dev libxxf86vm-dev git clang

Install Bazel. Example using npm:

sudo apt install npm && sudo npm install -g @bazel/bazelisk

Download the project:

git clone https://github.com/OliverKovacs/vulkan-xd && cd vulkan-xd && git submodule update --recursive --init

Build the project:

bazel build //src/main:main

Run:

bazel run //src/main:main

Repeat the steps above according to the distribution you are using. You will have to find out which packages you need to install to access the required headers. Download links:

• Vulkan SDK
• GLFW
• GLM
• Git
• Bazel

Windows is currently not supported, altough it could still work if you somehow manage to get all the dependencies working.

The basic Vulkan boilerplate code is largely based on Alexander Overvoorde's Vulkan Tutorial.

Oliver Kovacs

MIT