Learning Vulkan for Fun XOR Profit: Part 2, Getting a Spinning Cube to Run

Let's work on getting your environment set up.  I'm using an Intel Broadwell GPU and Fedora 23.

1. Build your Vulkan driver:

        a. Get your Vulkan driver:

git clone git://anongit.freedesktop.org/mesa/mesa
cd mesa
git checkout -b vulkan origin/vulkan

        b. Install your dependencies:

sudo dnf install libxshmfence-devel 

        c. Configure it

./autogen.sh

        d. Build it

make -j4 

     2. Get a linker.  Vulkan, like OpenCL, requires a system to go out and find the correct Vulkan install:

sudo dnf copr enable ajax/vulkan
sudo dnf install vulkan-devel

     3. Get your spinning cube program.  I'm using Kristian Hogsberg's vkcube:

cd
git clone https://github.com/krh/vkcube.git
cd vkcube
./autogen.sh
make -j4

    4.  Tell your spinning cube where Vulkan is:

export VK_ICD_FILENAMES=/home/[username]/mesa/src/intel/vulkan/dev_icd.json

    5. Run it!!

./vkcube

You should see something like this, a multicolored spinning cube: