Hey,
I’ve been trying to build out a dedicated server for OS X so that I can test it and load it onto the only extra machine I have for testing, but I can’t seem to find any documentation or instructions to get it to work. I’ve tried creating my own target file from the wiki ( I did edit it so Mac was one of the platforms that it supported) but I couldn’t get it to appear in Xcode. Do I need to compile the engine from source to do this? I opened up Unreal Frontend to try and do it there, but when I select the server target and run it, the build fails because it needs command line arguments that I can’t seem to give it. Specifically this:
Program.Main: ERROR: Exception in AutomationUtils.Automation: Server target not found. Server target is required with -server and -cook or -cookonthefly
Is there any way to do this? Any help or insight would be appreciated.
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In order to build a gameserver and gameclient, please do the following:
Open UnrealFrontEnd
Create a new Custom Launch Profile
Set the Custom Launch Profile configuration to the following:
Set the project
Set the build configuration to development
Check the box for Build UAt
Cook by the book
Cook platforms should be selected for MacServer and MacNoEditor
Select your maps to Cook
Select Package and Store Locally for Packaging
Select do not deploy for deploying
Select the back button at the top of the Custom Launch Profile settings window
Launch the new Custom Launch Profile
If you’d like to transfer your game client to multiple computers, you can do the following:
Navigate to the game project > StagedBuilds folder
Copy the MacNoEditor folder to the network
Copy the MacNoEditor folder from the network onto a separate Mac computer
To connect to your game client or game server, follow these steps:
Open a new terminal
Navigate to your gameserver.app on the first Mac machine
Enter ‘open’ into the terminal
Drag the gameserver.app into the terminal
Add ‘–args /game/maps/LEVEL -log’ to the end of the command in the terminal
Press Enter inside the terminal to start the game server
Open a new terminal
Navigate to game.app on two additional Mac computers
Enter ‘open’ into the terminal
Drag the game.app into the terminal on both client computers
Add ’ --args -log’ to the end of the command in the terminal on both client computers
Press Enter inside the terminal to start the game client on both client computers
You should be able to create this from the binary version of the engine. Could you please attempt this in a new project as well as in a different version of the engine? Provide those output logs too so that we can compare.
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This doesn’t work for me on a Mac. I’ve tried on multiple versions, most recently
At
“Launch the new Custom Launch Profile”
I always get
ERROR: Stage Failed. Missing receipt ‘/Users/Shared/epic_games/UE_4.21/Engine/Binaries/Mac/UE4Server.target’. Check that this target has been built.
(see [/Users/rescorcio/Library/Logs/Unreal Engine/LocalBuildLogs/Log.txt][1] for full exception trace)
AutomationTool exiting with ExitCode=103 (Error_MissingExecutable)
RunUAT ERROR: AutomationTool was unable to run successfully.
All I have done to generate this is
download 4.21.2
create a new project from the samples
follow the directions above
Have you confirmed these instructions work on a Mac?
