Handmade Rust Part 4: Generating Vulkan bindings

Vulkan is a C API so we’ll need some kind of bindings to be able to use it in Rust. The API is defined in a XML file distributed by Khronos. This file describes the structs, enums, constants, and functions for each version of the API, and all published extensions. The functions can then be loaded from the Vulkan dynamic library and other functions from the API. However using a raw C API isn’t easy in Rust because it requires using a lot of unsafe code.

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Handmade Rust Part 3: Containers

The most commonly used kinds of containers are arrays and maps. Pretty much any other container type can be built using those two, so that’s what we’ll build today! The Rust standard library has Vec which is a dynamic array and HashMap and BTreeMap which are two kind of maps, the first one relying on the key being hashable, and the second one relying on the key being sortable.

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Handmade Rust Part 2: Unq, an allocator-aware Box

In the Rust standard library, Box is a RAII wrapper for an object on the heap. It’s actually a special type that’s not implemented purely in the library, but also use special features called lang items. It uses the global allocator to allocate its memory. We want a similar type that also has an allocator associated to it. We’ll call it Unq, which mirror C++’s unique_ptr. Defining Unq pub struct Unq<T: ?

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Handmade Rust Part 1: Introduction & Allocators

Welcome to Handmade Rust, a series (hopefully) where I will be developing a Vulkan rendering engine in Rust the Handmade way. By this, I mean using no external libraries, not even the Rust standard library, only the core lib. I am doing this mainly for my own enjoyment but also because I want to get better at writing Rust, and sometimes the best way to really understand something is to just do it yourself.

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