Since my first post I have reinstalled visual studio (I’m using 2013 ultimate), as well as disabled my anti-virus. I’m still getting the errors. I believe the problem is coming from an error in my windows SDK. I have tried to reinstall it, but it gives me the following error:
A problem occurred while installing selected Windows SDK components.
Installation of the "Microsoft Windows SDK for " product has reported the following error: Please refer to Samples\Setup\HTML\ConfigDetails.htm document for further information.
Please attempt to resolve the problem and then start Windows SDK setup again. If you continue to have problems with this issue, please visit the SDK team support page at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=130245.
Click the View Log button to review the installation log.
To exit, click Finish.
The referred file ConfigDetails.htm doesn’t exist.
Edit 1: I have since figured out the problem with my sdk installation. I was receiving error 5100, which you get when you have a newer version of visual c++ redistributable than the one being installed by the sdk. I eventually figured out that the reason I didn’t catch this earlier, was because there had been some sort of error when I first uninstalled it, and it was still on my computer and I couldn’t see it. I used a program from microsoft to fix ms products that don’t install/uninstall properly. As of right now, i’m running the sdk installer again.
Edit 2: Windows sdk successfully installed. Attempted to create a c++ project in UE4; was able to get further into the the project creation before it game me an error (it got past generating code and got to compiling where it froze at 9%, followed by a “program not responding” message, then an unreal engine error.) I’m now no longer getting the windows.h error, but now i’m getting the “Cannot open include file: ‘new’” error.