Can't generate engine source code .xcodeproj or .sln project

anonymous_user_89df86541 · March 7, 2016, 2:19am

I cloned the release branch of the GitHub repository of the engine source code, I ran setup.command then GenerateProjectFiles.command and no .xcodeproj or .sln file has been created.

I had done that before and I could launch the editor through XCode (that time a project file had been generated).

In the mean time I downloaded another version of the Engine from Github, ran setup and GenerateProjectFiles, deleted the 2 versions of the engine (just putting them in the trash), then cloned them again. I did a few things that might have confused XCode with missing projects etc. Especially since I recloned exactly where I had cloned a previous version of the Engin before trashing it.

If anyone can help? I’m stuck because of it.

Here is a pic of what is in the folder after running the scripts. There is a xcode workspace file which I find strange.

anonymous_user_89df86541 · March 7, 2016, 2:42am

I opened UE4.xcworkspace in xcode, and looked at UE4 configuration and it is missing a lot of configurations, I think it shows the problem. I still don’t know how to fix it though.

anonymous_user_89df86541 · March 7, 2016, 3:43am

Even if there was no configuration set and I didn’t know how to setup xcode properly setting MyMac as a target and using development editor configuration, I still clicked on build for UE4 and it is building something. Is it reminiscences of information from my previous builds with other versions of the editor source code?

anonymous_user_89df86541 · March 8, 2016, 7:02am

The workspace file is totally usable to build the project because it contains projects into it. I read this thread to understand better the difference between an xcode project file and an xcode worspace