What's the state of the art in Zig ecosystem for Wayland+Vulkan without libc?

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This post by @TibboddiT mentions vulkan without libc:

Dynamic linking without libc adventures

Vulkan triangle from a static executable without libc: achieved! [2025-11-28_11-47] This is a direct copy-paste of the vulkan-zig triangle example, where uses of glfw to load vulkan and create/manage the window have been replaced by calls to the dynamic loader and direct x11 window handling. Source is here. Tested the same executable (!) on multiple ubuntu machines (one is kinda old), on a manjaro one, and surprisingly it also works on the chimera virtual machine. Since implementing some th…

Dynamic Library Loading Error

If you do not want to link libc, but you still want a portable static executable and the ability to load dynamic libraries, you can try https://github.com/TibboddiT/dyn-loader. There is a simple example that loads Vulkan in the repo. There is also a more involved example that draws a triangle using Vulkan. If you try it and it does not work, please let me know