vulkan-loader

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  "github_readme_excerpt": "# Vulkan Loader\n\nThis project provides the Khronos official Vulkan Loader for all platforms except [Android](https://android.googlesource.com/platform/frameworks/native/+/master/vulkan/)\n\n## Introduction\n\nVulkan is an explicit API, enabling direct control over how GPUs actually work.\nAs such, Vulkan supports systems that have multiple GPUs, each running with a different driver, or ICD (Installable Client Driver).\nVulkan also supports multiple global contexts (instances, in Vulkan terminology).\nThe ICD loader is a library that is placed between a Vulkan application and any number of Vulkan drivers, in order to support multiple drivers and the instance-level functionality that works across these drivers.\nAdditionally, the loader manages inserting Vulkan layer libraries, such as validation layers, between an application and the drivers.\n\nThis repository contains the Vulkan loader that is used for Linux, Windows, MacOS, and iOS.\nThere is also a separate loader, maintained by Google, which is used on Android.\n\nThe following components are available in this repository:\n\n- [ICD Loader](loader/)\n- [Loader Documentation](docs/LoaderInterfaceArchitecture.md)\n- [Tests](tests/)\n\n## Contact Information\n\n- [Charles Giessen](mailto:charles@lunarg.com)\n- [Mark Young](mailto:marky@lunarg.com)\n\n## Information for Developing or Contributing\n\nPlease see the [CONTRIBUTING.md](CONTRIBUTING.md) file in this repository for more details.\nPlease see the [GOVERNANCE.md](GOVERNANCE.md) file in this repository for repository management details.\n\n## How to Build and Run\n\n[BUILD.md](BUILD.md) includes directions for building all components.\n\nArchitecture and interface information for the loader is in [docs/LoaderInterfaceArchitecture.md](docs/LoaderInterfaceArchitecture.md).\n\n## Version Tagging Scheme\n\nUpdates to this repository which correspond to a new Vulkan specification release are tagged using the following format: `v\u003c`_`version`_`\u003e` (e.g., `v1.3.266`).\n\n**Note**: Marked version releases ha",
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