Lorem ipsum font demo

This repository contains a Vulkan demo of the font renderer I made, an explanation of how it works can be found here.

Building the project

Windows

Download and set the correct include and library directories to the dependencies: FreeType, GLFW, Vulkan SDK.

Run the demo passing the path to a font as the first argument e.g. "C:\windows\fonts\times.ttf"

Linux

Assuming FreeType, GLFW and the Vulkan SDK are installed.

Use CMake and Make to build the project:

cmake -S . -B build
make -C build

Run the demo passing in a font of your choice:

cd build
./font-demo "/usr/share/fonts/truetype/dejavu/DejaVuSerif.ttf"

macOS

This has been tested on macOS 10.14.2 with version 1.1.92.1 of the LunarG Vulkan SDK.

Install CMake and Freetype:

brew install cmake freetype

Install glfw from HEAD because version 3.2 of glfw does not include Vulkan support for macOS:

brew install glfw --HEAD

Download the latest LunarG Vulkan SDK and set up the environment variables as per the instructions in the docs.

Use CMake and Make to build the project:

cmake -S . -B build
make -C build

Run the demo passing in a font of your choice:

cd build
./font-demo "/Library/Fonts/Times New Roman.ttf"