# glfwCreateWindowSurface not available Vulkan SDK
**URL:** https://discourse.glfw.org/t/glfwcreatewindowsurface-not-available-vulkan-sdk/2378
**Category:** support
**Created:** [May 14, 2023, 5:47am UTC](https://discourse.glfw.org/t/glfwcreatewindowsurface-not-available-vulkan-sdk/2378 "2023-05-14T05:47:04Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author:  [@StalinPlusPlus](https://discourse.glfw.org/u/StalinPlusPlus)
#### Post date: [May 14, 2023, 5:47am UTC](https://discourse.glfw.org/t/glfwcreatewindowsurface-not-available-vulkan-sdk/2378/1 "2023-05-14T05:47:04Z")
I can’t use glfwCreateWindowSurface() because it’s not defined by my IDE. After reading the glfw.h file, I saw that this method is inside #if define VK\_VERSION\_1\_0. But even after installing this macro, the problem was not solved. Tell me what could be the matter?
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### Author:  [@dougbinks](https://discourse.glfw.org/u/dougbinks)
#### Post date: [May 14, 2023, 9:20am UTC](https://discourse.glfw.org/t/glfwcreatewindowsurface-not-available-vulkan-sdk/2378/2 "2023-05-14T09:20:46Z")
Welcome to the GLFW forum.
You should read the [GLFW Vulkan Guide](https://www.glfw.org/docs/latest/vulkan_guide.html), in particular the part about [Including the Vulkan and GLFW header files](https://www.glfw.org/docs/latest/vulkan_guide.html#vulkan_include). This explains what you need to do better than I can.
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### Author:  [@StalinPlusPlus](https://discourse.glfw.org/u/StalinPlusPlus)
#### Post date: [May 14, 2023, 9:32am UTC](https://discourse.glfw.org/t/glfwcreatewindowsurface-not-available-vulkan-sdk/2378/3 "2023-05-14T09:32:12Z")
Thank you very much!!! 🤩