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You might want to look at the MacOS Getting Started Guide on the LunarXchange website and in your SDK. There is a section at the end that shows how to use CMake to build a Vulkan app and run it on MacOS. You also may want to use the FindVulkan CMake module instead of manually setting the include directories and the target link libraries.

But my first guess about your specific problem is that you may not be setting the VK_ICD_FILENAMES environment variable. You are correct in your observation that there is no direct support for Vulkan. Instead, the support is provided by the MoltenVK library which is treated as a Vulkan driver. But this "driver" is not installed in any system directory by the SDK. The SDK is just unzipped in your home directory structure, so you must tell the Vulkan loader where to find it via this environment variable.

Again, the CMake section at the end of the Getting Started Guide demonstrates the use of this environment variable. And the entire guide goes into additional detail about how the various Vulkan and MoltenVK components work.

Turns out my problem was rooted in using an old version of MingW. Originally I downloaded MingW from here, which was recommended by the guide on MingW's wiki. I updated to 8.1.0 from this site and the linker began throwing errors about undefined references to different functions, such as "__imp_CreateDCW" and "__imp_SwapBuffers".

I happened to recognize these as GDI functions from some other research I did. I added GDI32 to the libraries option in the linker and the build went through successfully.

Now my build commands are as follows:

Your cmake code doesn't seem to show how you're initializing Vulkan_LIBRARY. Also, you're using VULKAN_INCLUDE_DIR and Vulkan_LIBRARY, which makes me suspicious of how you're initializing them.

I would expect to see something more like...