molten-vk

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  "github_readme_excerpt": "\u003ca class=\"site-logo\" href=\"https://github.com/KhronosGroup/MoltenVK\" title=\"MoltenVK\"\u003e\n\t\u003cimg src=\"Docs/images/MoltenVK-Logo-Banner.png\" alt=\"MoltenVK\" style=\"width:256px;height:auto\"\u003e\n\u003c/a\u003e\n\n\n\nMoltenVK\n========\n\nCopyright (c) 2015-2026 [The Brenwill Workshop Ltd.](http://www.brenwill.com)\n\n[comment]: # \"This document is written in Markdown (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Markdown) format.\"\n[comment]: # \"For best results, use a Markdown reader.\"\n\n![Build Status](https://github.com/KhronosGroup/MoltenVK/workflows/CI/badge.svg)\n\n\nTable of Contents\n-----------------\n\n- [Introduction to **MoltenVK**](#intro)\n- [Developing Vulkan Applications on *macOS, iOS, tvOS, and visionOS*](#developing_vulkan)\n\t- [Using the *Vulkan SDK*](#sdk)\n\t- [Using MoltenVK Directly](#download)\n- [Fetching **MoltenVK** Source Code](#install)\n- [Building **MoltenVK**](#building)\n\t- [Building With _Xcode_](#xcode_build)\n\t- [Building From the Command Line](#command_line_build)\n\t- [Hiding _Vulkan_ API Symbols](#hiding_vulkan_symbols)\n\t- [Accessing _Metal_ Private API Calls](#metal_private_api)\n\t- [Install *MoltenVK* to Replace The _Vulkan SDK_ `libMoltenVK.dylib`](#install_vksdk)\n- [Running **MoltenVK** Demo Applications](#demos)\n- [Using **MoltenVK** in Your Application](#using)\n- [**MoltenVK** and *Vulkan* Compliance](#compliance)\n- [Getting Support](#support)\n- [Contributing to **MoltenVK** Development](#contributing)\n\n\n\n\u003ca name=\"intro\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003e\nIntroduction to MoltenVK\n------------------------\n\n**MoltenVK** is a layered implementation of [*Vulkan 1.4*](https://www.khronos.org/vulkan)\ngraphics and compute functionality, that is built on Apple\u0027s [*Metal*](https://developer.apple.com/metal)\ngraphics and compute framework on *macOS*, *iOS*, *tvOS*, and *visionOS*. **MoltenVK** allows\nyou to use *Vulkan* graphics and compute functionality to develop modern, cross-platform,\nhigh-performance graphical games and applications, and to run them across many platforms,\nincluding *macOS*, *iOS*, *tvOS*, *visionOS*, ",
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