I’ve been having trouble tracking down why I can’t build downloaded C++ projects, and I decided to learn more about the plugins system as both projects I’ve attempted have used them.
Turned out to be the right place to look, as I’ve found myself unable to compile even the most basic of plugins. I’m following this tutorial on the wiki, and the first plugin containing nothing appears just fine. But after creating the second plugin, launching the editor prompts a recompile. Completely expected, except that the build fails. Again with no indication why. You can view the compilation log while it’s compiling, but as soon as there’s a failure it vanishes and you’re greeted with this incredibly helpful dialog:
Alright. So let’s open it up in Visual Studio (I’ve been just using a text editor to create the plugin so far) and see what the problem is:
I see. “[FONT=Courier New]#using UnrealBuildTool;” is invalid C++ syntax, so it fails out. Which is to be expected since it’s C# syntax in a .cs file that the build tool should be opening as a C# source file.
What do I do here? Has the process changed since the tutorial was written? Because this looks just like the structure of the 4.4 project I was having trouble with earlier. I’ve tried this in 4.4 and 4.3, both from the launcher.