I didn't try to do a manylinux build so binaries will only work on the same distribution of linux that they were build with. The only binary version available are wheel files for Ubuntu 20.04 for a few python version. They are available as gitlab pipeline artefacts.

Check this dockerfile for an example how to setup the environment to build.

PYTHONPATH=/usr/share/vulkan/registry python genswigi.py /usr/share/vulkan/registry/vk.xml .
python setup.py bdist_wheel

• Install the VulkanSDK
• Edit cli.ps1 to set the correct path to the VulkanSDK
• Install CMake
• Clone Vulkan-Docs
• Install a tool chain of Visual Studio 2019 or above
• Do git checkout v1.3.246 in the Vulkan-Docs repository (replace version with the one you downloaded)
• Run cli.ps1 to get a powershell prompt with the correct environment
• Start visual studio code from this prompt code .

Do something like this:

set PYTHONPATH=.\Vulkan-Docs\scripts
python genswigi.py .\Vulkan-Docs\xml\vk.xml .
python setup.py bdist_wheel

The current setup.py looks for Visual Studio 2019, you can change this in (setup.py)[setup.py].

Coverage is very limited. Currently we have the equivalent of the "template" sample in the Lunar SDK. It's a textured cube.

More test cases are welcome.

The unit tests depends on the following packages:

• contextlib2
• pillow

After cloning this repository:

python test_vulkanmitts_no_window.py
python hello_vulkanmittsoffscreen.py

These python bindings are for the most part generated from vk.xml in Vulkan-Docs using a script derived from generator.py.

• genswigi.py generates two SWIG interfaces files vulkan.ixx and shared_ptr.ixx;
• swig.exe generates the actual bindings from vulkanmitts.i which includes these generated interface files.

Because of they are generated from the spec, the bindings are mostly complete, excluding some extensions, but not tested.

Also included is pyglslang, Python binding for the glslang library that implements GLSL to SPIR-V compilation.