Katana is a free and open source game engine based on the Entity-Component-System (ECS) architecture. It is cross-platform, built and tested currently in C++ for desktop environment.
You will first need to install the dependencies to build the engine.
GLFW is used to create windows with OpenGL contexts and manage windows and inputs.
Download the source code from the GLFW download page. For windows, you may directly download the library binaries. For linux systems, you can compile from the source code.
# Install GLFW dependencies
# For Debian systems, you can install them with apt-get
sudo apt-get install cmake xorg-dev libgl1-mesa-dev
# Install GLFW from its directory
cmake .
make
sudo make install
GLM is OpenGL Mathematics library containing header only implementation based on GLSL specifications. You can download the headers directly from its github page.
# For Debian systems, you may install it with apt-get
sudo apt-get install libglm-dev
GLEW provides efficient extension loading library for OpenGL applications.
# For Debian systems, you may install it with apt-get
sudo apt-get install libglew-dev
SOIL provides tiny library for uploading textures into OpenGL.
# For Debian systems, you may install it with apt-get
sudo apt-get install libsoil-dev
Simply execute make to build the libraries, which are built into the bin directory. If error is encountered, try to clean up the previous build outputs using make clean.
To install the engine library, run make install.
make clean
make
make install