Vulkan.Utils.CommandCheck

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checkCommandsExp

Arguments

:: [Name]

The names of functions from the vulkan package. Unknown commands are ignored

-> Q Exp

Create an expression which checks the function pointers for all the Vulkan commands depended upon by the specified list of function names.

It returns a list of function names corresponding to those functions with null pointers.

Your program can use this function to fail early if a command couldn't be loaded for some reason (missing extension or layer for example).

One can create a function called checkCommands with the following: [d| checkCommands = $(checkCommandsExp ['withInstance, 'cmdDraw, ...]) |]

It has the type IsString a => Instance -> Device -> [a]

It looks basically like

inst dev ->
  [ name
  | True <- [ nullFunPtr == pVkCreateDevice inst
            , nullFunPtr == pVkCreateFence dev
              ..
            ]
  | name <- [ "vkCreateDevice"
            , "vkCreateFence"
              ..
            ]
  ]