C Specification

There is no global state in Vulkan and all per-application state is stored in a VkInstance object. Creating a VkInstance object initializes the Vulkan library and allows the application to pass information about itself to the implementation.

Instances are represented by VkInstance handles:

VK_DEFINE_HANDLE(VkInstance)

Description

See Also

vkCreateAndroidSurfaceKHR, vkCreateDebugReportCallbackEXT, vkCreateDebugUtilsMessengerEXT, vkCreateDisplayPlaneSurfaceKHR, vkCreateIOSSurfaceMVK, vkCreateInstance, vkCreateMacOSSurfaceMVK, vkCreateMirSurfaceKHR, vkCreateViSurfaceNN, vkCreateWaylandSurfaceKHR, vkCreateWin32SurfaceKHR, vkCreateXcbSurfaceKHR, vkCreateXlibSurfaceKHR, vkDebugReportMessageEXT, vkDestroyDebugReportCallbackEXT, vkDestroyDebugUtilsMessengerEXT, vkDestroyInstance, vkDestroySurfaceKHR, vkEnumeratePhysicalDeviceGroups, vkEnumeratePhysicalDeviceGroupsKHR, vkEnumeratePhysicalDevices, vkGetInstanceProcAddr, vkSubmitDebugUtilsMessageEXT

Document Notes

For more information, see the Vulkan Specification at URL

https://www.khronos.org/registry/vulkan/specs/1.1-extensions/html/vkspec.html#VkInstance

This page is extracted from the Vulkan Specification. Fixes and changes should be made to the Specification, not directly.

Copyright

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