vulkan_gen

Vulkan XML specification parser and Rust binding generator. Used internally by the vulkane crate, but reusable as a standalone code generator.

vulkan_gen parses vk.xml into typed Rust structures and emits a complete vulkan_bindings.rs file with every type, constant, struct, enum, function pointer, and dispatch table the spec defines. The parser uses roxmltree DOM parsing to correctly handle nested elements like <member> and <param> that contain mixed text and child element content.

For end users targeting Vulkan from Rust, install the vulkane crate instead — it includes vulkan_gen as a build dependency and exposes both the raw bindings and a complete safe RAII wrapper for compute and graphics.

Standalone usage

If you want to generate your own bindings:

use vulkan_gen::generate_bindings;

let xml_path = std::path::Path::new("vk.xml");
let out_path = std::path::Path::new("vulkan_bindings.rs");
generate_bindings(xml_path, out_path)?;

License

Licensed under either of:

• Apache License, Version 2.0 (LICENSE-APACHE)
• MIT License (LICENSE-MIT)

at your option.