This is my educational project where I experiment with attempting to build my own layer. The point of this is to explore the Vulkan loader and to get a deeper understanding of its internals. I suppose you could see this as a precursor to Vulkan driver development.

Thoughts on this project? - I learned a lot about function pointers and how call chains work, and a lot about Vulkan instance creation. However I am not very confident in how robust the layer is, especially on multiple platforms.

# Pull the repo 
git clone https://github.com/LawG4/VK_LAYER_Lawrence_Device_Spoof.git
cd VK_LAYER_Lawrence_Device_Spoof

# Configure the build
mkdir build
cd build
cmake ..

# Build
cmake --build .

From what I've seen you'll have to use Unix make files on Linux. It seems that ninja actually hates ASM for the Vulkan loader.

Also on Linux when you launch the application, you have to launch it with your terminal in directory build/bin. This is because the application relies on adding the binary's working directory to the VK_LAYER_PATH environment variable. Of course if the layer is already in VK_LAYER_PATH, then this won't matter.