Did you ever find a solution to this? I have the same problem. Trying to install the gitHub unreal release version, I get to VS and when attempting a build the UE4 solution, it gives this message
Error MSB3073 The command “…\Build\BatchFiles\Build.bat UE4Editor Win64 Development -WaitMutex -FromMsBuild” exited with code 999. UE4 C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\Community\Common7\IDE\VC\VCTargets\Microsoft.MakeFile.Targets 44