LightweightVK is a deeply refactored fork of IGL which is designed to run on top of Vulkan 1.3.
The main goals of LightweightVK:
- Lean. Minimalistic API without bloat (no
std::vector,std::unordered_mapetc in the API). - Bindless. Utilize Vulkan 1.3+ dynamic rendering, descriptor indexing, and buffer device address features for modern API design.
- Agile. A playground for experiments to enable quick exploration of ideas and adoption of Vulkan API changes. Designed for rapid prototyping of Vulkan-based renderers.
There are no plans to keep this fork in sync with the upstream.
- Vulkan 1.3
- Linux
- Windows
| Windows | Linux | |
|---|---|---|
| Vulkan 1.3 | ✔️ | ✔️ |
Before building, run the deployment scripts:
python3 deploy_content.py
python3 deploy_deps.py
These scripts download external third-party dependencies. Please check [Dependencies] for the full list.
- Windows
cd build
cmake .. -G "Visual Studio 17 2022"
- Linux
sudo apt-get install clang xorg-dev libxinerama-dev libxcursor-dev libgles2-mesa-dev libegl1-mesa-dev libglfw3-dev libglew-dev libstdc++-12-dev
cd build
cmake .. -G "Unix Makefiles"
LightweightVK is released under the MIT license, see LICENSE.md for the full text as well as third-party library acknowledgements.