karnkaul / rpi4-install-vulkan

Consolidated shell script to install the Raspberry Pi Mesa Vulkan driver for aarch64

Raspberry Pi 4 Mesa Vulkan Installer

Single shell script to install the Mesa Vulkan driver for Raspberry Pi 4.

Tested on Linux rpi4 5.10.63-v8+ aarch64.

Note

The latest version of libdrm (currently 2.4.110) seems to now be a required dependency. Refer to this excellent PR comment for more info.

Usage

1. Clone / copy / download script
2. Set as executable and run

Installing Vulkan

Pass --help to print usage.

install_vulkan.sh [install[=~/mesa_vulkan]] [config[=release]] [src[=mesa]] 
	[build[=build/$config]] [script[=vk_icd.sh]]

1. install: where to install built Vulkan drivers
2. config: build configuration
3. src: where to clone the mesa repository
4. build: where to build Vulkan drivers
5. script: name of source-able script to generate to set up an environment via installed drivers

Using Vulkan

1. Source the generated script into the shell environment: . vk_icd.sh
2. Run vkconfig to confirm driver / loader / ICD / etc work as expected
3. Run desired Vulkan applications, eg vkcube

rpi4-install-vulkan's Issues

git clone sucks

git clone --depth 1 will sucks
use
git clone --depth=1

Compile script dependency

I´getting an error with the most recent build of Raspberry OS 64 bit fully apt updated.

Could you please help to get this right ?

meson.build:1609:0: ERROR: Invalid version of dependency, need 'libdrm' ['>=2.4.109'] found '2.4.104'.

A full log can be found at /home/pi/mesa/build/release/meson-logs/meson-log.txt

meson-log.txt

libdrm-dev version 2.4.109 seems to be required ?

I just wanted to note that meson failed complaining that libdrm-nouveau version 2.4.109 was required, when only 2.4.104 was available with sudo apt-get install libdrm-dev.

Indeed, apt-cache madison libdrm-dev returns:

libdrm-dev | 2.4.104-1+rpi1 | http://raspbian.raspberrypi.org/raspbian bullseye/main armhf Packages

I needed to manually build and install libdrm-dev version 2.4.110 from source.

After that, this script worked like a charm. Thanks !