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Vulkan-Ecosystem

This repository is used as a tracker for cross-functional issues that affect Vulkan users. It is meant to facilitate triaging, discussion and routing of issues that don't necessarily fit under the scope of a single project within the Vulkan ecosystem.

Map of Vulkan Ecosystem projects

The Vulkan ecosystem is a big place and there's a lot out there that is useful! In no particular order...

Khronos/Vulkan® Specification

Vulkan® Specification - formal documentation of the Vulkan API. This includes the main API Specification, the reference (man) pages, the XML API Registry, and related tools and scripts.

• Landing page: https://www.vulkan.org/
• Website: https://www.khronos.org/registry/vulkan/
• Repository: https://github.com/KhronosGroup/Vulkan-Docs
• License: mixed — approximately:
  • Proprietary Khronos license for the Vulkan Specification published by Khronos on its website
  • CC-BY 4.0 for asciidoctor sources for the Specification and related documents such as the reference pages, style guide, and XML schema documentation.
  • Apache 2 for code, including the XML registry defining API interfaces
• Contacts:
  • Vulkan forum
• Compiler requirements: python 3 (3.4.2 known working), ruby 2 (2.3.3 known working)

Khronos/SPIRV-Tools

The SPIR-V Tools project provides an API and commands for processing SPIR-V modules.

• Repository: https://github.com/KhronosGroup/SPIRV-Tools
• License: Apache
• Contacts:
  • https://www.khronos.org/spir/spirv-tools-mailing-list/
  • David Neto [email protected]
• Compiler requirements: C++11 compatible compiler (MSVC 2013+ on Windows)

Khronos/glslang

glslang is a GLSL and HLSL to SPIR-V compiler, usable both as a command-line tool as well as a library.

• Website: https://www.khronos.org/opengles/sdk/tools/Reference-Compiler/
• Repository: https://github.com/KhronosGroup/glslang
• License: 3-clause BSD
• Contact: David Neto [email protected]
• Compiler requirements: C++11 compatible compiler (MSVC 2013+ on Windows)

Khronos/Vulkan-Headers

Vulkan Header files and API registry

• Repository: https://github.com/KhronosGroup/Vulkan-Headers
• License: Apache
• Contacts:
  • For now: Karl Schultz [email protected]
• Code of conduct: WIP
• Compiler requirements: N/A

Khronos/Vulkan-Loader

Source code for the Vulkan loader

• Repository: https://github.com/KhronosGroup/Vulkan-Loader
• License: Apache
• Contacts:
  • Lenny Komow [email protected]
• Code of conduct: https://github.com/KhronosGroup/Vulkan-Loader/blob/master/GOVERNANCE.md
• Compiler requirements: MSVC 2013+ / Python 3 / gcc 4.8.2+ / clang 3.4+

Khronos/Vulkan-ValidationLayers

Source code for the Vulkan validation layers

• Repository: https://github.com/KhronosGroup/Vulkan-ValidationLayers
• License: Apache
• Contacts:
  • Tobine Ehlis [email protected]
  • Mark Lobodzinski [email protected]
• Code of conduct: https://github.com/KhronosGroup/Vulkan-ValidationLayers/blob/master/GOVERNANCE.md
• Compiler requirements: MSVC 2013+ / gcc 4.8.2+ / clang 3.4+

Khronos/Vulkan-Tools

Source code for the Vulkan utilities and tools

• Repository: https://github.com/KhronosGroup/Vulkan-Tools
• License: Apache
• Contacts:
  • Tobine Ehlis [email protected]
  • Mark Lobodzinski [email protected]
• Code of conduct: https://github.com/KhronosGroup/Vulkan-Tools/blob/master/GOVERNANCE.md
• Compiler requirements: MSVC 2013+ / gcc 4.8.2+ / clang 3.4+

Khronos/MoltenVK

MoltenVK is an implementation of the high-performance, industry-standard Vulkan graphics and compute API, that runs on Apple's Metal graphics framework, bringing Vulkan compatibility to iOS and macOS

• Repository: https://github.com/KhronosGroup/MoltenVK
• License: Apache
• Contacts: [email protected]
• Compiler requirements: Xcode 9 / python 3

Khronos/Vulkan-HPP

Vulkan-Hpp is a set of lightweight C++ bindings for the Vulkan API.

• Repository: https://github.com/KhronosGroup/Vulkan-Hpp
• License: Apache
• Contact: Markus Tavenrath [email protected]
• Compiler requirements: MSVC 2013+ / gcc 4.8.2+ / clang 3.3+

Khronos/SPIRV-Cross

SPIRV-Cross is a practical tool and library for performing reflection on SPIR-V and disassembling SPIR-V back to high level languages.

• Repository: https://github.com/KhronosGroup/SPIRV-Cross
• License: Apache
• Contacts:
  • [email protected] (@HansKristian-ARM)
• Compiler requirements: MSVC 2013 / gcc 4.8/4.9+ / clang 3.x+

DirectX Shader Compiler (DXC)

DirectX Shader Compiler (DXC) is Microsoft's next-gen official HLSL compiler, based on LLVM/Clang. Apart from compiling HLSL into DXIL, it can also compile HLSL into SPIR-V, thanks to contribution from Google.

• Landing page: https://github.com/Microsoft/DirectXShaderCompiler/wiki
• Repository: https://github.com/Microsoft/DirectXShaderCompiler
• License: University of Illinois Open Source License
• Contacts:
  • Lei Zhang [email protected] (for SPIR-V CodeGen)
  • [email protected] (for other issues)
• Platform: Windows, Linux, macOS
• Compiler requirements: MSVC 2017 / GCC 5.5+ / Clang 3.8+
• Download: https://khr.io/dxcappveyorbuild (rolling release for Windows)

RenderDoc

RenderDoc - a graphics debugger, currently available for Vulkan, D3D11, D3D12, and OpenGL development on Windows 7 - 10 and Linux.

• Website: https://renderdoc.org/
• Repository: https://github.com/baldurk/renderdoc
• License: MIT
• Contacts:
  • [email protected]
  • #renderdoc on freenode IRC
• Code of conduct: contributor covenant
• Compiler requirements: MSVC 2015 / gcc 5 / clang 3.4

LunarG/VulkanTools

Source code for various Vulkan Tools: vktrace/vkreplay, device simulation layer, API dump layer, fps monitor layer, screenshot layer, assistant layer, layer factory framework, and Vulkan installation analyzer.

• Repository: https://github.com/LunarG/VulkanTools
• License: Apache
• Contact: David Pinedo [email protected]
• Code of conduct: https://github.com/LunarG/VulkanTools/blob/master/GOVERNANCE.md
• Compiler requirements: MSVC 2013+ / gcc 4.8.2+ / clang 3.4+

gfx-rs

gfx-rs is Vulkan-ic graphics abstraction layer in Rust, running on Vulkan, D3D12, Metal, and OpenGL, as well as providing C bindings as a Vulkan Portability implementation.

• Repository: https://github.com/gfx-rs/gfx
• License: Apache or MIT
• Contacts:
  • gfx-rs on Gitter
  • Dzmitry Malyshau
• Compiler requirements: Rust 1.22, gcc 5 / clang 3.4 for the portability layer

Vulkano

Vulkano is a type-safe wrapper around Vulkan API in Rust.

• Website: http://vulkano.rs/
• Repository: https://github.com/vulkano-rs/vulkano
• License: Apache or MIT
• Contacts:
  • Vulkano on Gitter
• Compiler requirements: Rust 1.22, gcc-4.8