Setup and Compilation

Setup and Compilation

Support

The only requirements for developing with the VUDA library is to have access to a Vulkan compatible system and install the Vulkan SDK. That said, the main tested targets of VUDA are Windows, Linux and Mac OS (through MoltenVK).

Compilation

To compile a c++17 program (x64) using the VUDA library it is necessary to specify:

• The path to the VUDA header file.
• The path to the Vulkan SDK header files.
• The path to the Vulkan SDK library files and add the additional library dependency.

Each sample accompanying the VUDA library includes a simple Makefile for compilation with g++. Simply set the path to the sample folder and run make.

Setting up the samples in Visual Studio is straight-forward. Make sure you compile x64 and enable c++17 features. Set the include and libary paths as well as the additional dependency on vulkan-1.lib.

For Xcode (todo).

Compile flags

Flag	Comment
VUDA_STD_LAYER_ENABLED	Enables the LunarG standard validation layer
VUDA_DEBUG_ENABLED	Enables run-time exceptions

Comparison with CUDA

If you are developing on CUDA-capable device, each sample can also be compiled with CUDA. To compile CUDA source code, install the CUDA toolkit.

To compile with CUDA simply type make cuda