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Install vulkan-profiles with Homebrew, pacman

Tools for Vulkan profiles. Version 1.4.363.0 via Homebrew; verified 2026-10-17. Also installable with pacman: sudo pacman -S vulkan-profiles.

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brew install vulkan-profiles

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Tools for Vulkan profiles

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Project history and usage

The Vulkan Profiles Toolset is Khronos's collection of command-line, schema, library, layer, and documentation components for defining and using portable Vulkan capability profiles.

Project history

Khronos and ecosystem contributors developed Vulkan Profiles to reduce capability-fragmentation problems across devices and platforms. The project combines a profile-processing CLI, JSON schemas, a C++ API library, a development layer, and generated comparison documentation. Its release tags track Vulkan specification and SDK revisions.

Adoption history

The toolset is delivered as part of the Vulkan SDK. The input additionally records packages in Homebrew and Arch Linux's package ecosystem.

How it is used

Developers use `vkprofiles` to validate, analyze, combine, transform, and generate artifacts from profile JSON. Applications can use the Profiles API library to test device support and enable required features, while the Profiles layer can clamp reported capabilities for development testing.

Why package nerds care

Vulkan Profiles turns a sprawling matrix of versions, extensions, features, formats, and limits into machine-readable capability contracts. The package supplies tooling useful to SDK packagers, graphics developers, engine maintainers, and conformance-oriented workflows.

Timeline

  • 2021: The toolset documentation references Android baseline profiles using the year-versioned profile scheme.
  • 2022: Baseline and Khronos roadmap profiles established widely documented cross-platform capability targets.
  • 2023: Repository tagging adopted Vulkan-specification and Vulkan-SDK version conventions.
  • 2026: The official changelog records Vulkan 1.4-era profiles and tooling updates.

Related projects

  • The Vulkan SDK distributes the toolset.
  • Vulkan-Headers supplies API definitions against which profiles are generated.
  • Vulkan Validation Layers complement the Profiles layer when testing application behavior.
  • Vulkan Configurator can enable and configure the Profiles layer.

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  • No Homebrew post-install hook is recorded in formula metadata.
  • Homebrew bottle metadata is available for 5 platform targets.
  • Installs with 5 runtime dependencies.
  • Build metadata lists 5 build dependencies.

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page generated2026-11-04
manager version1.4.363.0
manager updated2026-10-17
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https://github.com/KhronosGroup/Vulkan-Profiles

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Package metadata

Package keybrew:vulkan-profiles
Version1.4.363.0
Package managerHomebrew
Package manager pagehttps://formulae.brew.sh/formula/vulkan-profiles
Homepagehttps://github.com/KhronosGroup/Vulkan-Profiles
Repositoryhttps://github.com/KhronosGroup/Vulkan-Profiles
LicenseApache-2.0
Source archivehttps://github.com/KhronosGroup/Vulkan-Profiles/archive/refs/tags/vulkan-sdk-1.4.363.0.tar.gz
Last updated2026-10-17T08:43:52Z
Pulseupdated
Dependenciesjsoncpp, valijson, vulkan-headers, vulkan-loader, vulkan-utility-libraries
Build dependenciescmake, pkgconf, pyinstaller, python@3.15, rpds-py
Bottleavailable (on arm64_golden_gate, arm64_linux, arm64_sequoia, arm64_tahoe, x86_64_linux)
Homebrew post-installnot defined
Servicenone declared
CaveatsIn order to use the provided layer in a Vulkan application, you may need to place it in the environment with export VK_LAYER_PATH=$HOMEBREW_PREFIX/opt/vulkan-profiles/share/vulkan/explicit_layer.d

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Source DatabaseHomebrew formula API
Taphomebrew/core
Full Namevulkan-profiles
Version Scheme0
Revision0
Head VersionHEAD
Bottle Stable Root URLhttps://ghcr.io/v2/homebrew/core
Deprecatedno
Disabledno
Keg Onlyno
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vulkan-profiles 1.4.357.0-1

Vulkan profiles tools

https://github.com/KhronosGroup/Vulkan-Profiles

sudo pacman -S vulkan-profiles
  • License: Apache-2.0 AND CC-BY-4.0 AND BSL-1.0
  • Architecture: x86_64
  • 7 dependencies
  • normalized package name match
  • Matched by: Vulkan Profiles
Arch Linux sync databases · geo.mirror.pkgbuild.com · Arch Linux sync databases: vulkan-profiles from https://geo.mirror.pkgbuild.com/extra/os/x86_64/extra.db.tar.gz

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Related tools

  • pkgconfBuild dependency declared by Homebrew.
  • cmakeBuild dependency declared by Homebrew.
  • python@3.15Build dependency declared by Homebrew.
  • vulkan-validationlayersPackage names and metadata indicate a similar tool family. Shared terms: headers, libraries, loader, vulkan, vulkan-headers.
  • vulkan-extensionlayerPackage names and metadata indicate a similar tool family. Shared terms: headers, libraries, vulkan, vulkan-headers, vulkan-utility-libraries.
  • vulkan-toolsPackage names and metadata indicate a similar tool family. Shared terms: headers, loader, vulkan, vulkan-headers, vulkan-loader.

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