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:
// Provided by VK_VERSION_1_0
VK_DEFINE_HANDLE(VkInstance)See Also
VK_VERSION_1_0, vkCreateAndroidSurfaceKHR, vkCreateDebugReportCallbackEXT, vkCreateDebugUtilsMessengerEXT, vkCreateDirectFBSurfaceEXT, vkCreateDisplayPlaneSurfaceKHR, vkCreateHeadlessSurfaceEXT, vkCreateIOSSurfaceMVK, vkCreateImagePipeSurfaceFUCHSIA, vkCreateInstance, vkCreateMacOSSurfaceMVK, vkCreateMetalSurfaceEXT, vkCreateScreenSurfaceQNX, vkCreateStreamDescriptorSurfaceGGP, vkCreateViSurfaceNN, vkCreateWaylandSurfaceKHR, vkCreateWin32SurfaceKHR, vkCreateXcbSurfaceKHR, vkCreateXlibSurfaceKHR, vkDebugReportMessageEXT, vkDestroyDebugReportCallbackEXT, vkDestroyDebugUtilsMessengerEXT, vkDestroyInstance, vkDestroySurfaceKHR, vkEnumeratePhysicalDeviceGroups, vkEnumeratePhysicalDeviceGroupsKHR, vkEnumeratePhysicalDevices, vkGetInstanceProcAddr, vkSubmitDebugUtilsMessageEXT
Document Notes
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.