Can I build my game without using Visual Studio?

Development Pipeline & Plugins
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I can’t install VS2013. It’s not supported for Windows Vista which is what I’m using.

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Technically, you can. You can manually run the build tool and provide the arguments to it. However, the editor’s code-related features all use VS2013 by default, so it’s gonna be a bit hard to work without it.

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I see. Thanks.

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Even invoking the build tools manually will require the MSVC compiler in order to do the work.

I checked, and it seems that even VS2012 Express doesn’t target Windows Vista. I also checked, and the minimum specs listed for UE4 development are (on Windows) Windows 7. Häufig gestellte Fragen - Unreal Engine

It seems that Windows Vista ended mainstream support in April 2012, so I doubt Microsoft will be getting Visual Studio to work on that OS any time soon (particularly since it wasn’t a popular OS). Lifecycle FAQ - Windows | Microsoft Learn

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Thanks for the extra info.