VulkanTutorial_Template

Description

This project contains the basic set up for creating a vulkan project in MacOS for Apple Silicon and VulkanSDK1.3.290

Pre-requeriments to use this project

The process to set up this project has been following the tutorial: https://vulkan-tutorial.com/Development_environment#page_MacOS with some changes.

• Installing VulkanSDK latest Mac version in "/Users/${USER}/VulkanSDK"
• Installing GLFW using homebrew. !IMPORTANT for Apple Silicone is installed in /opt/homebrew/Cellar/glfw not in /usr/local
• Installing GLM using homebrew

XCode Settings done

• On Build Settings -> Library Search Paths

  • Header Search Paths added:
    • /Users/${USER}/VulkanSDK/macOS/include
    • /opt/homebrew/Cellar/glfw/3.4/include
  • Library Search Paths added:
    • /Users/${USER}/VulkanSDK/macOS/lib
    • /opt/homebrew/Cellar/glfw/3.4/lib

• On Build Phases

  • Link Binary With Libraries added files:
    • /opt/homebrew/Cellar/glfw/3.4/lib/libglfw.3.4.dylib
    • /Users/frdiaz/VulkanSDK/macOS/lib/libvulkan.1.3.290.dylib
    • /Users/frdiaz/VulkanSDK/macOS/lib/libvulkan.1.dylib
    • /Users/frdiaz/VulkanSDK/macOS/lib/libMoltenVK.dylib (!IMPORTANT: The tutorial does not include this, if this is not added it will not be able to locate this file)
  • Copy Files -> Destination Frameworks -> Subpath ""
    • Added the four past files from the framework list

• Product -> Scheme -> Edit Scheme -> Environment Variables Added:

  • VK_ICD_FILENAMES=/Users/${USER}/VulkanSDK/macOS/share/vulkan/icd.d/MoltenVK_icd.json
  • VK_LAYER_PATH=/Users/${USER}/VulkanSDK/macOS/share/vulkan/explicit_layer.d

WARNING: Make sure you have installed the pre-requeriments in the same location than this set up and you are using the same versions, if not updated the project settings followin your set up.