VkInstance(3) Manual Page

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:

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

For more information, see the Vulkan Specification

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

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