vkCreatePipelineLayout(3)
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Name
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vkCreatePipelineLayout - Creates a new pipeline layout object.

C Specification
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include::../protos/vkCreatePipelineLayout.txt[]

Parameters
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pname:device::
    The device with which to create the new pipeline layout object.

pname:pCreateInfo::
    A pointer to structure specifying the properties of the new pipeline layout.

pname:pPipelineLayout::
    Pointer to a variable to recieve a handle to the new pipeline layout object.

Description
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fname:vkCreatePipelineLayout creates a new pipeline layout object for the device specified in
pname:device. The resulting pipeline layout object handle is written into the variable whose
address is given in pname:pPipelineLayout.

pname:pCreateInfo is a pointer to an instance of a slink:VkPipelineLayoutCreateInfo structure describing
the new pipeline layout. The definition of slink:VkPipelineLayoutCreateInfo is:

include::../structs/VkPipelineLayoutCreateInfo.txt[]

The pname:sType member of the slink:VkPipelineLayoutCreateInfo structure should be set to
ename:VK_STRUCTURE_TYPE_PIPELINE_LAYOUT_CREATE_INFO. The pname:pNext member is reserved for use
by extensions and should be set to code:NULL.

The pname:setLayoutCount member specifies the number of descriptor sets to
include in the layout and pname:pSetLayouts is a pointer to an array of
pname:setLayoutCount sname:VkDescriptorSetLayout objects describing the
sets, each created with flink:vkCreateDescriptorSetLayout.

include::../validity/protos/vkCreatePipelineLayout.txt[]

See Also
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flink:vkCreateDescriptorSetLayout

include::footer.txt[]