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Install dependencies

Cmake

sudo dnf install cmake

Vulkan

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The most important components you’ll need for developing Vulkan applications on Linux are the Vulkan loader, validation layers, and a couple of command-line utilities to test whether your machine is Vulkan-capable:

  • sudo apt install vulkan-tools or sudo dnf install vulkan-tools: Command-line utilities, most importantly vulkaninfo and vkcube. Run these to confirm your machine supports Vulkan.
  • sudo apt install libvulkan-dev or sudo dnf install vulkan-loader-devel : Installs Vulkan loader. The loader looks up the functions in the driver at runtime, similarly to GLEW for OpenGL - if you’re familiar with that.
  • sudo apt install vulkan-validationlayers-dev spirv-tools or sudo dnf install mesa-vulkan-devel vulkan-validation-layers-devel: Installs the standard validation layers and required SPIR-V tools. These are crucial when debugging Vulkan applications, and we’ll discuss them in the upcoming chapter.

On Arch Linux, you can run sudo pacman -S vulkan-devel to install all the required tools above.

If installation was successful, you should be all set with the Vulkan portion. Remember to run vkcube and ensure you see the following pop up in a window:

Validation error

official document suggest: sudo dnf install mesa-vulkan-devel vulkan-validation-layers-devel, but the first one will not work, also we missing another one, so the final command we should use is :
sudo dnf install vulkan-validation-layers vulkan-validation-layers-devel

GLFW

Terminal window
sudo dnf install glfw-devel

GLM

Terminal window
sudo dnf install glm-devel

GLSL

sudo dnf install glslc

switch between DEBUG mode and RELEASE mode

  1. First check the which compiler is using
    c++ --version
    currently I am using GCC
  2. Go to the project directory, set to Release or Debug mode -> cmake -B build -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release
  3. Check if you are really in that mode:
    1. in the build folder, when compiling, use verbose: make VERBOSE=1
      • if the outcome contains: /usr/bin/c++ -g -g means debug mode
    2. use cat CMakeCache.txt | grep CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE
      • the output : CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE:STRING=Release means in the Release mode
  4. Compile:
    1. go to build file, make
    2. in the project directory (outside build folder), cmake --build build