cl-vulkan-kit

Common Lisp bindings for Vulkan, the cross-platform, low-overhead graphics and compute API.

Status

This system binds a first vertical slice of the Vulkan API: creating and destroying a VkInstance, instance-level enumeration (API version, extensions, layers), and physical-device enumeration, properties, and queue family properties. That is enough to enumerate the GPUs on a machine and inspect what they support — see Getting started.

Logical devices, queues, command buffers, memory, shaders, and the swapchain/surface extensions are not bound yet; see the roadmap for what is next and why the surface extensions in particular are still an open question.

Bound via sb-alien, SBCL's built-in FFI, rather than an external cffi dependency — this system stays at zero external Lisp dependencies, like every other repository in the nerima-lisp org. See the API reference for every bound symbol.