Allow windows 0.52 in addition to windows 0.51 (#189)

* Allow `windows 0.52` in addition to `windows 0.51`

Extend the version range bound to allow both as there do not appear
to be breaking changes that affect this crate, and test compatibility
against the minimum and maximum version of all dependencies in CI.

Also remove the `check` job from CI which is only running a subset of
what `clippy` is already also doing.

* Allow `ash 0.34` for examples

We no longer have a fixed dependency on `ash-window` that disallows us
from using a lower value.

* Clean up Vulkan example

Author: MarijnS95

.github/workflows/ci.yml

@@ -3,21 +3,6 @@ on: [push, pull_request]
 name: CI
 
 jobs:
-  check:
-    name: Check
-    strategy:
-      matrix:
-        include:
-        - os: ubuntu-latest
-          features: vulkan,visualizer
-        - os: windows-latest
-          features: vulkan,visualizer,d3d12,public-winapi
-    runs-on: ${{ matrix.os }}
-    steps:
-      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
-      - name: Cargo check
-        run: cargo check --workspace --all-targets --features ${{ matrix.features }} --no-default-features
-
   check_msrv:
     name: Check MSRV (1.65.0)
     strategy:
@@ -73,6 +58,13 @@ jobs:
       - name: Cargo clippy
         run: cargo clippy --workspace --all-targets --features ${{ matrix.features }} --no-default-features -- -D warnings
 
+      - name: Install nightly Rust
+        uses: dtolnay/rust-toolchain@nightly
+      - name: Generate lockfile with minimal dependency versions
+        run: cargo +nightly generate-lockfile -Zminimal-versions
+      - name: Cargo clippy with minimal-versions
+        run: cargo +stable clippy --workspace --all-targets --features ${{ matrix.features }} --no-default-features -- -D warnings
+
   doc:
     name: Build documentation
     # Windows supports the entire feature surface

Cargo.toml

@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ egui_extras = { version = "0.23", optional = true, default-features = false }
 winapi = { version = "0.3.9", features = ["d3d12", "winerror", "impl-default", "impl-debug"], optional = true }
 
 [target.'cfg(windows)'.dependencies.windows]
-version = "0.51"
+version = ">=0.51,<=0.52"
 features = [
     "Win32_Foundation",
     "Win32_Graphics",
@@ -48,14 +48,14 @@ optional = true
 
 [dev-dependencies]
 # Enable the "loaded" feature to be able to access the Vulkan entrypoint.
-ash = { version = "0.37", default-features = false, features = ["debug", "loaded"] }
+ash = { version = ">=0.34,<=0.37", default-features = false, features = ["debug", "loaded"] }
 env_logger = "0.10"
 
 [target.'cfg(windows)'.dev-dependencies]
 winapi = { version = "0.3.9", features = ["d3d12", "d3d12sdklayers", "dxgi1_6", "winerror", "impl-default", "impl-debug", "winuser", "windowsx", "libloaderapi"] }
 
 [target.'cfg(windows)'.dev-dependencies.windows]
-version = "0.51"
+version = ">=0.51,<=0.52"
 features = [
     "Win32_Foundation",
     "Win32_Graphics",

examples/vulkan-buffer.rs

@@ -1,9 +1,9 @@
+use std::default::Default;
+use std::ffi::CStr;
+
 use ash::vk;
 use log::info;
 
-use std::default::Default;
-use std::ffi::CString;
-
 use gpu_allocator::vulkan::{
     AllocationCreateDesc, AllocationScheme, Allocator, AllocatorCreateDesc,
 };
@@ -16,27 +16,22 @@ fn main() {
 
     // Create Vulkan instance
     let instance = {
-        let app_name = CString::new("Vulkan gpu-allocator test").unwrap();
+        let app_name = CStr::from_bytes_with_nul(b"Vulkan gpu-allocator test\0").unwrap();
 
         let appinfo = vk::ApplicationInfo::builder()
-            .application_name(&app_name)
+            .application_name(app_name)
             .application_version(0)
-            .engine_name(&app_name)
+            .engine_name(app_name)
             .engine_version(0)
             .api_version(vk::make_api_version(0, 1, 0, 0));
 
-        let layer_names = [CString::new("VK_LAYER_KHRONOS_validation").unwrap()];
-        let layers_names_raw: Vec<*const i8> = layer_names
-            .iter()
-            .map(|raw_name| raw_name.as_ptr())
-            .collect();
-
-        let extensions_names_raw = vec![];
+        let layer_names_raw = [CStr::from_bytes_with_nul(b"VK_LAYER_KHRONOS_validation\0")
+            .unwrap()
+            .as_ptr()];
 
         let create_info = vk::InstanceCreateInfo::builder()
             .application_info(&appinfo)
-            .enabled_layer_names(&layers_names_raw)
-            .enabled_extension_names(&extensions_names_raw);
+            .enabled_layer_names(&layer_names_raw);
 
         unsafe {
             entry