Setting Up Vulkan With Glfw

While writing for my Game, and while making the Perlin Noise and the Mesh (which is in my homepage), I thought maybe I can make something from which I myself can render and create the mountain mesh and other as needed and not have to use Blender or other game engine. On my search I found OpenGL and Vulkan to draw it. Draw triangles because everything you see in screens are triangles. And I decided let's try vulkan because it allows greater control and I started setting it up.

My OS is NixOS so this is catered towards it but this can be implemented in other OS too, and maybe checkout the official documentation at https://vulkan-tutorial.com/Development_environment. This can help out. And for my NixOS config, I have a shell.nix as :

{pkgs ? import <nixpkgs> {}}:
pkgs.mkShell {
  buildInputs = with pkgs; [
    gnumake
    glfw3
    vulkan-tools
    vulkan-headers
    vulkan-validation-layers
    clang
    bear
    pkg-config
    vulkan-loader
    cmake
    glm
  ];
}

You will need to setup Nvidia GPU and you can also use nvidia-offload vkcube to check if Vulkan works, It should generate a cube for you. And you can start coding and using it. Maybe this CMakeLists.txt will also help out.

cmake_minimum_required(VERSION 3.20)
project(VulkanGame)
set(CMAKE_CXX_STANDARD 20)
set(CMAKE_EXPORT_COMPILE_COMMANDS ON)
find_package(glfw3 REQUIRED)
find_package(Vulkan REQUIRED)

add_executable(main src/main.cpp)
target_include_directories(main PRIVATE
    ${Vulkan_INCLUDE_DIRS}
    ${GLFW_INCLUDE_DIRS}
)
target_link_libraries(main glfw Vulkan::Vulkan)

Maybe this will help you out somehow. This is for Nvidia GPU beacuse that is what is in my computer but should help out for others too

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