Improve Vulkan and Slang SDK discovery - #61
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Summary
SLANG_SDKor the Vulkan SDKWhy
Ubuntu system packages split Vulkan and Slang across system paths, while the former LunarG apt SDK left Slang older than the engine-facing API. The official tarball keeps compatible Vulkan and Slang components together, but places the Vulkan loader in a separate SDK-relative directory.
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SLANG_STAGE_DISPATCHcode without a compatibility bridgeEngine-Testsresolves the tarball Vulkan loader and bundled versioned Slang runtime library