Kitsune Engine

Kitsune Engine is an up-and-coming open-sourced game engine written in C++20. This project is mainly for learning low-level systems programming, so expect a whole lot of bugs. Kitsune is licensed under the MIT license.

Thats all I have to say, have fun with this project!

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Getting Started

Follow the instructions below to build and run Kitsune from source. As of now, Kitsune does not support any other platforms except for Windows.

1. Requirements

• A C/C++ compiler. You can use one of the following tested compilers:
  • Visual Studio Community 2026, be sure to install the Desktop development with C++ workload or install the MSVC compiler with the Windows SDK.
  • MinGW-w64 with Clang can also be used, but keep in mind that some features will be disabled because of compiler support.
• The CMake build system. The later the release version, the better.
• Git, which will be required to clone this repository.

2. Additional Requirements

• If you are building with a compiler other than MSVC, the following have to be installed:
  • libbacktrace for stack trace support. (Optional)
  • Ninja as the build system.

3. Getting the Source Code
Start by cloning the repository with git clone https://github.com/Windvain/Kitsune. We strongly advice cloning the repository with the --recursive flag.
If the repository was not cloned recursively, run git submodule update --init to clone all the required submodules.

4. Build the Engine
Run the following command with this repository as your current working directory. The engine can be built with three different build types, Debug, Optimized, and Production. Replace <your build type> with the desired build type.

For Visual Studio 2026:

$ cmake --preset "Visual Studio 2026"
...
-- Configuring done (18.8s)
-- Generating done (0.2s)
-- Build files have been written to: <path to Kitsune>/build

Or alternatively for MinGW-w64 with Clang:

$ cmake --preset "Clang MinGW" -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE="<your build type>"
...
-- Configuring done (2.7s)
-- Generating done (0.2s)
-- Build files have been written to: <path to Kitsune>/build

After configuring the project using CMake, we can go on to the last step, which is building the engine.

Visual Studio 2026 users can use this command:

$ cmake --build build/ --preset "Visual Studio 2026 - <your build type>"

Or with MinGW-Clang:

$ cmake --build build/ --preset "Clang MinGW - <your build type>"