I copied the entire project folder from my UnrealProjects folder on my Windows machine to my UnrealProjects folder on my mac. When I start the launcher I see the project and I click open then I get the following errors:
I I click ok and then I get this:
Okay, I’m assuming you have the Mac developer tools installed. You can’t build a C++ project if you don’t. If you have Xcode, the project worked okay on Windows, and won’t compile on the Mac, most likely there’s something platform specific in the code. It could just be something as simple as a #region call or a platform-specific #pragma. It could also be the use of a platform-specific library.
To figure it out, go to the Finder and navigate to your .uproject. Select it in the finder, and then go to menu Finder -> Services -> Generate Xcode Project
This will create an Xcode project. Launch it, change the configuration to Mac Editor, and press ⌘B to build. It should fail to build, but the build log will give you more detailed information about why it failed. If you don’t know how to fix it, post the log here and we can help.
If it does build, press ⌘R to run and it will launch your project with the compiled module.
yeah I got it working. my xcode was out of date. as was my source for the engine. Only the Launcher version had been updated.
What about the other way around? For some reason, I can’t open a project I zipped on my mac on my pc. It started on my pc, I brought it to mac, and now that I’m trying to bring it back, it’s not working. Aside from a little code change, I added a blank c++ file.
strange I have never had an issue as long as it didn’t have something calling some custom SDK or something that was windows only.
“Finder → Services → Generate Xcode Project” – I did this and it opened the terminal. What should I do next?
@Deodance
Did you solve this problem of the Mac project not opening on your PC?
I am seeing the same issue. I mostly develop on my Mac, but when i bring the project over to my PC it can compile all the plugins just fine, then launches the Editor and gets to about 94%, and then the editor crashes.
I’ve identified the problem has to do with one or more BP UMG assets. I can delete the assets and the problem goes away. I actually fixed this problem 2 months ago, after spending a day to figure out which UMG was causing the crash. But now the problem has come back and different UMG assets are affected. It feels to me that some of the UMGs are just “corrupted.”
I can spend the time to trace down which are the effective assets. the problem is that I can’t fix them. There is nothing wrong with the UMG as far as I can see. Again, it works just fine with no complaints on my mac. (and it has nothing to do with Mac-specific plugins or anything) I can use Perforce to roll back to a working version, but then when i attempt to use my PC to recreate the work the UMG corruption comes back and the Editor stops launching. In one case i can open a working version of a corrupted UMG, and delete some unused functions from the Event Graph, save, and then re-open the Editor and it crashes at 94% again.
any help would be greatly appreciated.
thx-e