KhronosGroup
environment variable to save configured settings in a file
Some application vendors configure the validation layer programmatically (i.e. via switches like -vulkan_enable_validation -vulkan_enable_sync_validation etc.).
For local analysis, it would be very helpful to know exactly how the validation layer is actually being configured in these cases.
Defining an environment variable VK_VALIDATION_SAVE_SETTINGS=/path/to/file/to/save/settings that caused VVL to write a settings file to the given location would make it easy.
agree, this is also nice in general as sometimes I myself am concern I do/don't have certain settings enabled... VK_LAYER_VALIDATION_SAVE_SETTINGS would be a good debug env variable
Would this be something to add to the settings library instead of being specific to validation?
@christophe-lunarg this is something we really want for other layers too, is this something Layer Settings can take care of?
This looks great to me and yes the layer settings library is a good place for this to generalize to all layers.
We could also have a VK_VALIDATION_LOAD_SETTINGS env variable.
Probably a bit tricky to handle correcly the interaction of multiple layers on that file. I think we should go for a single environment variable VK_LAYERS_LOAD_SETTINGS and VK_LAYERS_SAVE_SETTINGS shared across layers.
Does it sounds good to you?
Should we move this issue in the VulkanUtility repository?
Does it sounds good to you?
Sounds good to me, @lunarpapillo good for you?
Should we move this issue in the VulkanUtility repository?
done