Right now, when you generate project/solution files for a project, if there is an error that occurs during the process, the window instantly closes. And I’ve tried to track down a log for the thing, but I’ve been unlucky in said search.
I was going to do it “real quick” last night, but it seems to be non-trivial, so I figured I’d be like “OH HEY EPIC JUST DO THIS PLZ.”
Bumping this; some way of halting/grabbing the output from the visual project generation window is super helpful; on-error is particularly useful, but sometimes there are some misc. warnings that I completely miss too.
I was unable reproduce this behaviour in 4.19. Would it be possible to attach a log of the error (and/or warning) that you are seeing that you would like the window to say on screen for?
just intentionally muck up a build.cs file; should do the trick.
[EDIT]: Wait, I can’t seem to reproduce this anymore either. And I completely forgot what I ran into earlier that was failing. Also: part of the problem is that as far as I can find (?) there is no output log file from it. So I’ll get warnings that speed by, but I can’t read them in time.
It’s a bug that was introduced in 4.16, and happens when a dependent plugin is missing, perhaps in other cases too. I encountered it still in 4.18 preview.
I posted this bug report over 4 months ago, also started a thread here, and I believe this is now the fourth feedback thread I’ve seen complaining of the issue.
Personally I’ve completely given up wasting my time with Epic and feedback/bug reports, but if anyone wants to follow it up, that answer hub link is probably your best bet since someone responded relatively recently.