How do I add Vulkan with GCC, MinGW and o64-clang?

[sharp root]

How do I add Vulkan with GCC, MinGW and o64-clang? Currently I am using Linux Ubuntu 24.10

[queen locust]

Know the specification you have downloaded. If on Windows (which I assume you are), you will find that in C:\VulkanSDK\your spec version. If you have not yet downloaded the SDK, head to https://www.lunarg.com/vulkan-sdk/ and follow the setup process. You will want to specify your include flag to be the path to the \Include folder within the SDK (e.g. -I"C:\VulkanSDK\1.4.304\Include") and your linker flag to be the same, but for the \Lib folder instead (e.g. -I"C:\VulkanSDK\1.4.304\Lib"). There may also be an environment variable such as VULKAN_SDK or VK_SDK_PATH which will automatically fill out "C:\VulkanSDK\spec" for you. You then simply need to include Vulkan through "#include <vulkan/vulkan.h>".

[sharp root]

my vulkan downloaded on /home/comical/vulkan

[queen locust]

are you using windows?

[sharp root]

no, I am a Linux user

[queen locust]

can't help ya then since I don't use Linux, sorry

if you're using Linux then how are you using MinGW?

[toxic dagger]

probably mingw cross compiler - to build windows programs from a linux environment

[untold fable]

I was compiling with Clang and mingw headers, I was on windows but I doubt that changes anything, what is the exact error you’re running into?

[fluid igloo]

Have you used a build system such as make or CMake before?

Vulkan-tutorial talks about setting up a makefile project on Linux https://vulkan-tutorial.com/en/Development_environment#page_Setting-up-a-makefile-project

[untold fable]

Yes I just used make

I also had a batch file

I just realized 😭

[sharp root]

mingw is made by open source comunity, is from gcc. so i can just use it since is gcc and it works well

[sharp root]

not needed, you can just use cmake

[sharp galleon]

mingw will also build for windows by default, gcc will build for linux if running in linux

[sharp root]

yes

but on linux we install mingw running

sudo apt install mingw

for debian distributions

[sharp galleon]

that is fine, but no lib will have a mingw package, you have to compile everything yourself

[sharp root]

No you don't

[sharp galleon]

what library has a mingw package?

[sharp root]

you can use msvc ones

Like ones of boost

can be used to build an app for windows with mingw

[sharp galleon]

*only dynamic libs

[sharp root]

i've tested

[sharp root]

and static ones too

[sharp galleon]

not always

[sharp root]

that's why there's clang

[sharp galleon]

so you have not yet stated what is the problem you are having other than "how"

[sharp root]

I fixed it already e, it was just vulkan sdk setup thinky

[untold fable]

I've been doing mingw headers for a long time but bunding crt is a bit annoying if you don't want to link it statically because nobody in the universe has mingw installed.

But I've been avoiding it all together by only using winapi with mingw headers

this way you don't need crt

[untold fable]

that is just not true

[sharp galleon]

src? cuz last I checked it didn't play nice with static libs

[untold fable]

idk just build with clang --target=x86_64-pc-windows-gnu -static

and you will have crt in your file

[sharp galleon]

that's clang not gcc

[untold fable]

yes its the same

clang comes without headers

you can do it with gcc

same result

[sharp galleon]

and we're talking about linking msvc built static libs here not static libs in general

[untold fable]

you can link them

but you have to put the paths

doesn't instantly work out of the box on mingw's gcc

but does work in clang actually!

--target=x86_64-pc-windows-msvc

which is... the default target

(on windows)

ofc -static