QRenderDoc GLFW: failed to create window surface

[swapname]

Description

I am running into a problem with vulkan, glfw and renderdoc. Whenever I hit launch I get the error failed to create window surface!. This error does not happen when running the target vulkan app without renderdoc and the app runs just fine.

Steps to reproduce

If you go here https://vulkan-tutorial.com/Multisampling at the bottom of the article are links for the c++ code, and shaders files. Alternatively, and probably preferably, here is my minimum reproducible example.

#define GLFW_INCLUDE_VULKAN
#include <GLFW/glfw3.h>

#include <iostream>
#include <stdexcept>
#include <vector>

const uint32_t WIDTH = 800;
const uint32_t HEIGHT = 600;

const std::vector<const char*> deviceExtensions = {
    VK_KHR_SWAPCHAIN_EXTENSION_NAME
};

class HelloTriangleApplication {
public:
    void run() {
        initWindow();
        initVulkan();
        mainLoop();
    }

private:
    std::vector<const char*> getRequiredExtensions() {
        uint32_t glfwExtensionCount = 0;
        const char** glfwExtensions;
        glfwExtensions = glfwGetRequiredInstanceExtensions(&glfwExtensionCount);

        std::vector<const char*> extensions(glfwExtensions, glfwExtensions + glfwExtensionCount);

        return extensions;
    }

    void createInstance() {
        VkApplicationInfo appInfo{};
        appInfo.sType = VK_STRUCTURE_TYPE_APPLICATION_INFO;
        appInfo.pApplicationName = "Hello Triangle";
        appInfo.applicationVersion = VK_MAKE_VERSION(1, 0, 0);
        appInfo.pEngineName = "No Engine";
        appInfo.engineVersion = VK_MAKE_VERSION(1, 0, 0);
        appInfo.apiVersion = VK_API_VERSION_1_0;

        VkInstanceCreateInfo createInfo{};
        createInfo.sType = VK_STRUCTURE_TYPE_INSTANCE_CREATE_INFO;
        createInfo.pApplicationInfo = &appInfo;

        auto extensions = getRequiredExtensions();
        createInfo.enabledExtensionCount = static_cast<uint32_t>(extensions.size());
        createInfo.ppEnabledExtensionNames = extensions.data();

        VkDebugUtilsMessengerCreateInfoEXT debugCreateInfo{};
        createInfo.enabledLayerCount = 0;

        createInfo.pNext = nullptr;

        if (vkCreateInstance(&createInfo, nullptr, &instance) != VK_SUCCESS) {
            throw std::runtime_error("failed to create instance!");
        }
    }

    void createSurface() {
        if (glfwCreateWindowSurface(instance, window, nullptr, &surface) != VK_SUCCESS) {
            throw std::runtime_error("failed to create window surface!");
        }
    }

    void initVulkan() {
        this->createInstance();
        this->createSurface();
    }

    VkInstance instance;
    GLFWwindow* window;
    VkSurfaceKHR surface;
    bool framebufferResized = false;

    void initWindow() {
        glfwInit();

        glfwWindowHint(GLFW_CLIENT_API, GLFW_NO_API);
        glfwWindowHint(GLFW_RESIZABLE, GLFW_TRUE);

        window = glfwCreateWindow(WIDTH, HEIGHT, "Vulkan", nullptr, nullptr);
        glfwSetWindowUserPointer(window, this);
        glfwSetFramebufferSizeCallback(window, framebufferResizeCallback);
    }

    static void framebufferResizeCallback(GLFWwindow* window, int width, int height) {
        auto app = reinterpret_cast<HelloTriangleApplication*>(glfwGetWindowUserPointer(window));
        app->framebufferResized = true;
    }

    void mainLoop() {
        while (!glfwWindowShouldClose(window)) {
            glfwPollEvents();
        }
    }

};

int main() {
    HelloTriangleApplication app;

    try {
        app.run();
    } catch (const std::exception& e) {
        std::cerr << e.what() << std::endl;
        return EXIT_FAILURE;
    }

    return EXIT_SUCCESS;
}

Environment

• RenderDoc version: v1.33
• Operating System: Arch Linux, Kernel 6.9.7-arch1-1
• Graphics API: Vulkan
• Card: Radeon RX 7900 XT

[Zorro666]

Please can you check if your system is running Wayland. RenderDoc does not support Wayland and requires X11.

If it is easy can you try adding

glfwInitHint(GLFW_PLATFORM, GLFW_PLATFORM_X11);

before the call to glfwCreateWindow

[swapname]

Didn't even think I had wayland installed on this pc. Thanks that was the issue. Funny because I meant to put that in the extra info but forgot.