Vulkan Headers for Rust

This library contains minimalist Rust FFI bindings for Vulkan in a way that's roughly equivalent to the Khronos Group's official vulkan.h for C/C++. It makes no attempt at providing safe or idiomatic Rust wrappers and doesn't rename any C identifiers to match Rust's style guidelines.

The following Rust code:

use vulkan_headers::vulkan::vulkan::*;

is roughly equivalent to the following C code:

#include <vulkan/vulkan.h>

NonNull Types

In addition to most of what's provided by vulkan.h, this library adds NonNull type aliases for function pointer types and handle types.

PFN_vkCreateInstance is defined as:

pub type NonNullPFN_vkCreateInstance = unsafe extern "system" fn(pCreateInfo: *const VkInstanceCreateInfo, pAllocator: *const VkAllocationCallbacks, pInstance: *mut VkInstance) -> VkResult;
// ...
pub type PFN_vkCreateInstance = Option<NonNullPFN_vkCreateInstance>;

VkInstance is defined as:

pub type NonNullVkInstance = NonNull<VkInstance_T>;
// ...
pub type VkInstance = *mut VkInstance_T;

Optional Features

External function declarations aren't provided by default, only their corresponding function pointer type aliases (e.g. vkCreateInstance isn't provided but PFN_vkCreateInstance is). This is similar to defining VK_NO_PROTOTYPES before including vulkan.h. Use the prototypes feature to enable these function declarations.

The exported-prototypes feature can be used instead to limit these declarations to exported functions only. This is similar to defining VK_ONLY_EXPORTED_PROTOTYPES before including vulkan.h. Using the prototypes feature implicitly enables the exported-prototypes feature.

Beta (a.k.a. "provisional") extensions and/or platform-specific extensions can be enabled using the beta-extensions and/or <platform>-extensions (e.g. win32-extensions) features. This is similar to defining VK_ENABLE_BETA_EXTENSIONS and/or VK_USE_PLATFORM_<PLATFORM> (e.g. VK_USE_PLATFORM_WIN32_KHR) before including vulkan.h.

Requirements

This library only supports targets with 64-bit pointers. This allows pointer and NonNull types to be used portably for all Vulkan handle types.