Vulkan Cookbook

Getting ready

There are many different libraries allowing us to load contents of images. All of them have their own specific behaviors, usages, and licenses. In this recipe, we will use a stb_image library created by Sean T. Barrett. It is very simple to use, yet supports enough image formats to start developing a Vulkan application. And one of its main strengths is that it is a single header library, all its code is placed in just one header file. It doesn't depend on any other libraries, files, or resources. Another advantage is that we can use it in whatever way we want.

The stb_image.h file is available at https://github.com/nothings/stb.

To use the stb_image library in our application, we need to download a stb_image.h file from https://github.com/nothings/stb ...