$ show mackron/vkbind
vkbind is a Vulkan API loader and code generator that creates a single header file containing all Vulkan API definitions and functions for dynamically loading Vulkan functions. It parses the official Vulkan XML specifications (vk.xml and video.xml) to generate a comprehensive C header that eliminates the need for the official Vulkan SDK. The generated header includes type definitions, enumerants, function prototypes, and loader functions like vkInit(), vkInitInstanceAPI(), and vkBindAPI() for accessing Vulkan functionality across different platforms.
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A set of self-contained file I/O utility functions (vkbFOpen, vkbOpenAndReadFile, vkbOpenAndReadTextFile, vkbOpenAndWriteFile, vkbOpenAndWriteTextFile) that provide safe, cross-platform file operations with comprehensive error handling. These functions demonstrate non-obvious skill in robust resource management, proper error checking, and handling platform-specific differences (like fopen_s on MSVC). They are isolated, depend only on standard C library, and can be extracted into any project with minimal modification by copying the functions and the VkbResult enum definition.