diff --git a/.gitmodules b/.gitmodules
index 45dd0d259..e65997afc 100644
--- a/.gitmodules
+++ b/.gitmodules
@@ -61,3 +61,6 @@
 [submodule "simpleini"]
 	path = externals/simpleini
 	url = https://github.com/brofield/simpleini.git
+[submodule "oaknut"]
+	path = externals/oaknut
+	url = https://github.com/merryhime/oaknut
diff --git a/externals/CMakeLists.txt b/externals/CMakeLists.txt
index 515e3f2a4..1d2be1459 100644
--- a/externals/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/externals/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -26,6 +26,10 @@ if ((ARCHITECTURE_x86_64 OR ARCHITECTURE_arm64) AND NOT TARGET dynarmic::dynarmi
     add_library(dynarmic::dynarmic ALIAS dynarmic)
 endif()
 
+if (ARCHITECTURE_arm64 AND NOT TARGET merry::oaknut)
+    add_subdirectory(oaknut)
+endif()
+
 # getopt
 if (MSVC)
     add_subdirectory(getopt)
diff --git a/externals/oaknut b/externals/oaknut
new file mode 160000
index 000000000..918bd94f0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/externals/oaknut
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+Subproject commit 918bd94f025d6a2de13978468351598997ae3909