Vulkanalia Bootstrap 

Vulkanalia Bootstrap is a utility library that jump starts initialization of Vulkan via the Vulkanalia bindings.

Note: This is a quick and dirty fork of ash bootrstrap. I really appreciate the way Vulkanalia implements its API and I felt the only thing holding me back was the missing bootstrap library. So I went ahead and decided to create it myself. Feel free to use it as a quick starter. I will try to keep it somewhat up-to-date with ash-bootrstrap. Feel free to send improvements through a pull-request.

[dependencies]

vulkanalia_bootstrap = "0.1.5"

Features

• Streamlined Vulkan initialization: Simplifies instance, device, and queue setup

• Window integration: Built-in support for surface creation via vulkanalia::window

• Tracing support: Optional integration with tracing crate

• Portability: macOS compatibility via portability feature Not tested

Usage examples

fn main() -> anyhow::Result<()> {
    let instance = InstanceBuilder::new(None)
        .app_name("Example Vulkan Application")
        .engine_name("Example Vulkan Engine")
        .request_validation_layers(true)
        .use_default_tracing_messenger()
        .build()?;

    let physical_device = PhysicalDeviceSelector::new(instance.clone())
        .preferred_device_type(PreferredDeviceType::Discrete)
        .select()?;

    let device = Arc::new(DeviceBuilder::new(physical_device, instance.clone()).build()?);

    // You can get the inner handle that is used by vulkan
    // Or you can just pass it where the device handle is expected, because it implements AsRef.
    let _device_handle = device.handle();

    let (_graphics_queue_index, _graphics_queue) = device.get_queue(QueueType::Graphics)?;
    let swapchain_builder = SwapchainBuilder::new(instance.clone(), device.clone());

    let swapchain = swapchain_builder.build()?;

    // And right now we got rid of 400-500 lines of vulkan boilerplate just like that.
    // Now let's cleanup.

    swapchain.destroy();
    device.destroy();
    instance.destroy();
}

For more examples make sure to check examples directory.