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Michael IV
Michael IV

Reputation: 11436

vkCreateDebugReportCallbackEXT vs vkCreateDebugUtilsMessengerEXT

As a Vulkan noob, I see vkCreateDebugUtilsMessengerEXT used in tutorials,which looks similar to OpenGL Debug Output extension. Both also share same enumerators. Please explain the difference and use case.

Upvotes: 2

Views: 1164

Answers (1)

Nicol Bolas
Nicol Bolas

Reputation: 473447

There are/were two extensions in Vulkan that involve handling this kind of debug report callback stuff: VK_EXT_debug_report and VK_EXT_debug_utils. Debug report was the first one and has essentially been abandoned in favor of the second. Debug report was solely devoted to providing a callback interface, while debug utils provides APIs for naming things and various other debugging systems.

Debug report is officially a deprecated extension, so going forward, you should use debug utils.

Upvotes: 6

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