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+/*!
+
+@page vulkan_guide Vulkan guide
+
+@tableofcontents
+
+This guide is intended to fill the gaps between the [Vulkan
+documentation](https://www.khronos.org/vulkan/) and the rest of the GLFW
+documentation and is not a replacement for either. It assumes some familiarity
+with Vulkan concepts like loaders, devices, queues and surfaces and leaves it to
+the Vulkan documentation to explain the details of Vulkan functions.
+
+To develop for Vulkan you should install an SDK for your platform, for example
+the [LunarG Vulkan SDK](https://vulkan.lunarg.com/). Apart from the headers and
+libraries, it also provides the validation layers necessary for development.
+
+The GLFW library does not need the Vulkan SDK to enable support for Vulkan.
+However, any Vulkan-specific test and example programs are built only if the
+CMake files find a Vulkan SDK.
+
+For details on a specific function in this category, see the @ref vulkan. There
+are also guides for the other areas of the GLFW API.
+
+ - @ref intro_guide
+ - @ref window_guide
+ - @ref context_guide
+ - @ref monitor_guide
+ - @ref input_guide
+
+
+@section vulkan_include Including the Vulkan and GLFW header files
+
+To include the Vulkan header, define [GLFW_INCLUDE_VULKAN](@ref build_macros)
+before including the GLFW header.
+
+@code
+#define GLFW_INCLUDE_VULKAN
+#include <GLFW/glfw3.h>
+@endcode
+
+If you instead want to include the Vulkan header from a custom location or use
+your own custom Vulkan header then do this before the GLFW header.
+
+@code
+#include <path/to/vulkan.h>
+#include <GLFW/glfw3.h>
+@endcode
+
+Unless a Vulkan header is included, either by the GLFW header or above it, any
+GLFW functions that take or return Vulkan types will not be declared.
+
+The `VK_USE_PLATFORM_*_KHR` macros do not need to be defined for the Vulkan part
+of GLFW to work. Define them only if you are using these extensions directly.
+
+
+@section vulkan_support Querying for Vulkan support
+
+If you are linking directly against the Vulkan loader then you can skip this
+section. The canonical desktop loader library exports all Vulkan core and
+Khronos extension functions, allowing them to be called directly.
+
+If you are loading the Vulkan loader dynamically instead of linking directly
+against it, you can check for the availability of a loader with @ref
+glfwVulkanSupported.
+
+@code
+if (glfwVulkanSupported())
+{
+ // Vulkan is available, at least for compute
+}
+@endcode
+
+This function returns `GLFW_TRUE` if the Vulkan loader was found. This check is
+performed by @ref glfwInit.
+
+If no loader was found, calling any other Vulkan related GLFW function will
+generate a @ref GLFW_API_UNAVAILABLE error.
+
+
+@subsection vulkan_proc Querying Vulkan function pointers
+
+To load any Vulkan core or extension function from the found loader, call @ref
+glfwGetInstanceProcAddress. To load functions needed for instance creation,
+pass `NULL` as the instance.
+
+@code
+PFN_vkCreateInstance pfnCreateInstance = (PFN_vkCreateInstance)
+ glfwGetInstanceProcAddress(NULL, "vkCreateInstance");
+@endcode
+
+Once you have created an instance, you can load from it all other Vulkan core
+functions and functions from any instance extensions you enabled.
+
+@code
+PFN_vkCreateDevice pfnCreateDevice = (PFN_vkCreateDevice)
+ glfwGetInstanceProcAddress(instance, "vkCreateDevice");
+@endcode
+
+This function in turn calls `vkGetInstanceProcAddr`. If that fails, the
+function falls back to a platform-specific query of the Vulkan loader (i.e.
+`dlsym` or `GetProcAddress`). If that also fails, the function returns `NULL`.
+For more information about `vkGetInstanceProcAddr`, see the Vulkan
+documentation.
+
+Vulkan also provides `vkGetDeviceProcAddr` for loading device-specific versions
+of Vulkan function. This function can be retrieved from an instance with @ref
+glfwGetInstanceProcAddress.
+
+@code
+PFN_vkGetDeviceProcAddr pfnGetDeviceProcAddr = (PFN_vkGetDeviceProcAddr)
+ glfwGetInstanceProcAddress(instance, "vkGetDeviceProcAddr");
+@endcode
+
+Device-specific functions may execute a little bit faster, due to not having to
+dispatch internally based on the device passed to them. For more information
+about `vkGetDeviceProcAddr`, see the Vulkan documentation.
+
+
+@section vulkan_ext Querying required Vulkan extensions
+
+To do anything useful with Vulkan you need to create an instance. If you want
+to use Vulkan to render to a window, you must enable the instance extensions
+GLFW requires to create Vulkan surfaces.
+
+To query the instance extensions required, call @ref
+glfwGetRequiredInstanceExtensions.
+
+@code
+uint32_t count;
+const char** extensions = glfwGetRequiredInstanceExtensions(&count);
+@endcode
+
+These extensions must all be enabled when creating instances that are going to
+be passed to @ref glfwGetPhysicalDevicePresentationSupport and @ref
+glfwCreateWindowSurface. The set of extensions will vary depending on platform
+and may also vary depending on graphics drivers and other factors.
+
+If it fails it will return `NULL` and GLFW will not be able to create Vulkan
+window surfaces. You can still use Vulkan for off-screen rendering and compute
+work.
+
+The returned array will always contain `VK_KHR_surface`, so if you don't
+require any additional extensions you can pass this list directly to the
+`VkInstanceCreateInfo` struct.
+
+@code
+VkInstanceCreateInfo ici;
+
+memset(&ici, 0, sizeof(ici));
+ici.enabledExtensionCount = count;
+ici.ppEnabledExtensionNames = extensions;
+...
+@endcode
+
+Additional extensions may be required by future versions of GLFW. You should
+check whether any extensions you wish to enable are already in the returned
+array, as it is an error to specify an extension more than once in the
+`VkInstanceCreateInfo` struct.
+
+
+@section vulkan_present Querying for Vulkan presentation support
+
+Not every queue family of every Vulkan device can present images to surfaces.
+To check whether a specific queue family of a physical device supports image
+presentation without first having to create a window and surface, call @ref
+glfwGetPhysicalDevicePresentationSupport.
+
+@code
+if (glfwGetPhysicalDevicePresentationSupport(instance, physical_device, queue_family_index))
+{
+ // Queue family supports image presentation
+}
+@endcode
+
+The `VK_KHR_surface` extension additionally provides the
+`vkGetPhysicalDeviceSurfaceSupportKHR` function, which performs the same test on
+an existing Vulkan surface.
+
+
+@section vulkan_window Creating the window
+
+Unless you will be using OpenGL or OpenGL ES with the same window as Vulkan,
+there is no need to create a context. You can disable context creation with the
+[GLFW_CLIENT_API](@ref window_hints_ctx) hint.
+
+@code
+glfwWindowHint(GLFW_CLIENT_API, GLFW_NO_API);
+GLFWwindow* window = glfwCreateWindow(640, 480, "Window Title", NULL, NULL);
+@endcode
+
+See @ref context_less for more information.
+
+
+@section vulkan_surface Creating a Vulkan window surface
+
+You can create a Vulkan surface (as defined by the `VK_KHR_surface` extension)
+for a GLFW window with @ref glfwCreateWindowSurface.
+
+@code
+VkSurfaceKHR surface;
+VkResult err = glfwCreateWindowSurface(instance, window, NULL, &surface);
+if (err)
+{
+ // Window surface creation failed
+}
+@endcode
+
+It is your responsibility to destroy the surface. GLFW does not destroy it for
+you. Call `vkDestroySurfaceKHR` function from the same extension to destroy it.
+
+*/