Stuck on the tutoriall for validation layers

hello :wave: I am pretty new to c++ / Vulkan programming, so I decided to read the Vulkan tutorial and try it out for myself
however I got stuck on this part,
/en/Drawing_a_triangle/Setup/Validation_layers

the debug messages are not printing

I followed instructions for validating my installation and it reported success

here is the code I am working with at the moment
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(it won’t let me a link to a gist so I guess I will have to just paste in here and hope for the best)

#define GLFW_INCLUDE_VULKAN
#include <GLFW/glfw3.h>
#include <iostream>
#include <stdexcept>
#include <functional>
#include <cstdlib>
#include <vector>

// because this function is an extension function, it is not automatically loaded. 
// We have to look up its address ourselves using vkGetInstanceProcAddr
VkResult CreateDebugUtilsMessangerEXT(
	VkInstance instance, 
	const VkDebugUtilsMessengerCreateInfoEXT* pCreateInfo,
	const VkAllocationCallbacks* pAllocator,
	VkDebugUtilsMessengerEXT* pDebugMessenger
) {
	auto funk = (PFN_vkCreateDebugUtilsMessengerEXT)vkGetInstanceProcAddr(instance, "vkCreateDebugUtilsMessengerEXT");
	if (funk != nullptr) {
		return funk(instance, pCreateInfo, pAllocator, pDebugMessenger);
	}
	else {
		return VK_ERROR_EXTENSION_NOT_PRESENT;
	}
}

class HelloTriangleApplication {
public:
	void run() {
		initWindow();
		initVulkan();
		mainLoop();
		cleanup();
	}
private:
	// In pixels or something
	const int WIDTH = 800;
	const int HEIGHT = 600;

	static const char TAB = '\t';
	static const char ENDL = '\n';

	// Window junk i dunno
	GLFWwindow* window = nullptr;

	VkInstance instance;
	VkDebugUtilsMessengerEXT debugMessenger;

	const std::vector<const char*> validationLayers = {
		"VK_LAYER_KHRONOS_validation"
	};

#ifdef NDEBUG
	const bool enableValidationLayers = false;
#else
	const bool enableValidationLayers = true;
#endif

	void initWindow() {
		glfwInit();
		glfwWindowHint(GLFW_CLIENT_API, GLFW_NO_API);
		glfwWindowHint(GLFW_RESIZABLE, GLFW_FALSE);
		window = glfwCreateWindow(WIDTH, HEIGHT, "Vulkan", nullptr, nullptr);

	}
	void initVulkan() {
		createInstance();
		setupDebugMessenger();

		uint32_t extensionCount = 0;
		vkEnumerateInstanceExtensionProperties(nullptr, &extensionCount, nullptr);

		std::vector<VkExtensionProperties> extensions(extensionCount);

		vkEnumerateInstanceExtensionProperties(nullptr, &extensionCount, extensions.data());

		std::cout << "available extensions:" << ENDL;

		for (const auto& extension : extensions) {
			std::cout << TAB << extension.extensionName << ENDL;		
		}
	}

	void createInstance() {

		if (enableValidationLayers && !checkValidationLayerSupport()) {
			throw std::runtime_error("validation layers requested, but not available ");
		}

		VkApplicationInfo appInfo = {};
		appInfo.sType = VK_STRUCTURE_TYPE_APPLICATION_INFO;
		appInfo.pApplicationName = "Hello Triangle";
		appInfo.applicationVersion = VK_MAKE_VERSION(1, 0, 0);
		appInfo.pEngineName = "No Engine";
		appInfo.engineVersion = VK_MAKE_VERSION(1, 0, 0);
		appInfo.apiVersion = VK_API_VERSION_1_1;

		VkInstanceCreateInfo createInfo = {};
		createInfo.sType = VK_STRUCTURE_TYPE_INSTANCE_CREATE_INFO;
		createInfo.pApplicationInfo = &appInfo;

		uint32_t glfwExtensionCount = 0;
		const char** glfwExtensions;
		glfwExtensions = glfwGetRequiredInstanceExtensions(&glfwExtensionCount);

		createInfo.enabledExtensionCount = glfwExtensionCount;
		createInfo.ppEnabledExtensionNames = glfwExtensions;
		createInfo.enabledLayerCount = 0;
		auto extensions = getRequiredExtensions();
		createInfo.enabledExtensionCount = static_cast<uint32_t>(extensions.size());
		createInfo.ppEnabledExtensionNames = extensions.data();

		if (VK_SUCCESS != vkCreateInstance(&createInfo, nullptr, &instance)) {
			throw std::runtime_error("failed to create instance!");
		}
		else {
			std::cout << "Successfully create a Vulkan instance !!!!" << ENDL;
		}

	}

	void setupDebugMessenger() {
		if (!enableValidationLayers) return;

		std::cout << "setting up the debug messenger." << ENDL;

		VkDebugUtilsMessengerCreateInfoEXT createInfo = {};
		createInfo.sType = VK_STRUCTURE_TYPE_DEBUG_UTILS_MESSENGER_CREATE_INFO_EXT;


		createInfo.messageSeverity =
			VK_DEBUG_UTILS_MESSAGE_SEVERITY_VERBOSE_BIT_EXT |
			VK_DEBUG_UTILS_MESSAGE_SEVERITY_WARNING_BIT_EXT |
			// Leaving this one out because its the verbose debugging information, but would be fun to turn
			// it on some day.
			//VK_DEBUG_UTILS_MESSAGE_SEVERITY_INFO_BIT_EXT |
			VK_DEBUG_UTILS_MESSAGE_SEVERITY_ERROR_BIT_EXT;

		createInfo.messageType =
			VK_DEBUG_UTILS_MESSAGE_TYPE_GENERAL_BIT_EXT |
			VK_DEBUG_UTILS_MESSAGE_TYPE_VALIDATION_BIT_EXT |
			VK_DEBUG_UTILS_MESSAGE_TYPE_PERFORMANCE_BIT_EXT;

		createInfo.pfnUserCallback = debugCallback;
		createInfo.pUserData = nullptr;
		if (VK_SUCCESS != CreateDebugUtilsMessangerEXT(instance, &createInfo, nullptr, &debugMessenger)) {
			throw std::runtime_error("failed to set up debug messenger !");
		}
	}

	bool checkValidationLayerSupport() {
		uint32_t layerCount;
		vkEnumerateInstanceLayerProperties(&layerCount, nullptr);

		std::vector<VkLayerProperties> availableLayers(layerCount);
		vkEnumerateInstanceLayerProperties(&layerCount, availableLayers.data());

		for (const char* layerName : validationLayers) {
			bool layerFound = false;
			for (const auto& layerProperties : availableLayers) {
				if (strcmp(layerName, layerProperties.layerName) == 0) {
					layerFound = true;
					break;
				}
			}
			if (!layerFound) {
				return false;
			}
		}

		return true;
	}
	
	std::vector<const char*> getRequiredExtensions() {
		uint32_t glfwExtensionCount = 0;
		auto glfwExtensions = glfwGetRequiredInstanceExtensions(&glfwExtensionCount);

		std::vector<const char*> extensions(glfwExtensions, glfwExtensions + glfwExtensionCount);

		if (enableValidationLayers) {
			extensions.push_back(VK_EXT_DEBUG_UTILS_EXTENSION_NAME);
		}

		return extensions;
	}

	void mainLoop() {
		while (!glfwWindowShouldClose(window)) {
			glfwPollEvents();
		}
	}

	void cleanup() {
		vkDestroyInstance(instance, nullptr);
		glfwDestroyWindow(window);
		glfwTerminate();
	}

	// This gets called on every debug message
	static VKAPI_ATTR VkBool32 VKAPI_CALL debugCallback(
		VkDebugUtilsMessageSeverityFlagBitsEXT messageSeverity,
		VkDebugUtilsMessageTypeFlagsEXT messageType,
		const VkDebugUtilsMessengerCallbackDataEXT* pCallbackData,
		void* pUserData) {
		std::cout << "validation layer::" << pCallbackData->pMessage << std::endl;
		if (messageSeverity >= VK_DEBUG_UTILS_MESSAGE_SEVERITY_WARNING_BIT_EXT) {
			// An important message that we would show.
		}
		return VK_FALSE;
	}
};

int main() {
	HelloTriangleApplication app;
	try {
		app.run();
	}
	catch (const std::exception& e) {
		std::cerr << e.what() << std::endl;
		return EXIT_FAILURE;
	}

	return EXIT_SUCCESS;

}

If that’s the whole code, then you’re probably not getting any output from the layers because there is nothing to report. If you want to see validation layer output you actually have to run Vulkan code that would trigger e.g. an error.

Also you overwrite your extension enablement list:

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