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Installation

Mitchell Talyat edited this page Dec 28, 2024 · 15 revisions

Installation Guide

This is a guide to installing the game engine, both as an application, as well as the dev environment.

These guides assume you are using a 64-bit Windows 10/11 device, as those are the only supported operating systems at the moment.

Prerequisites

There are some prerequisites to use the Minty Engine, whether you want to use only the application, or build from source. Please download the following:

Visual Studio

Download here

Any up-to-date version is sufficient. This is needed to build the projects. One day these will all be moved to CMake, but for now, it is all Visual Studio.

Vulkan Software Development Kit

Download here

The most recent version is sufficient. This is needed to build shaders, and run the graphical projects in debug mode (when building from source).

CMake

Download here

The most recent version is sufficient. It is easiest to download and use the Windows x64 Installer (cmake-3.29.4-windows-x86_64.msi).

Restart your device following the installation of all prerequisites!

Application

This is how to download and install the Minty Engine for use as a game engine.

WIP.

Source

This is how to download the Minty Engine source code, and edit/run the source code that way.

  1. Clone the repository.
cd C:/your/path/to/the/repository
git clone https://github.com/mtalyat/Minty-Engine.git
  1. Run the setup script. This script will generate user-specific files and build each project in the correct order. Run it as administrator (this is so it can create the MINTY_PATH environment variable).
your/path/to/Minty-Engine/Scripts/Setup/setup.bat
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