CodeLite Source Code Access and Project File Generator for Unreal Engine 4

anonymous_user_71c55af3 · September 2, 2015, 8:06pm

That is the output when i clicked Build button. I don’t know how UBT works in the core, but here is my guess.

It can’t find [PROJECT]Game and [PROJECT]Editor build file. Not sure how it is generated originally. But no matter when, i can compile fine from VS. So i assume it is generated when IDE starts building.

Here is the output when VS builds:

1> Creating makefile for ChessGameEditor (no existing makefile)
1> Performing full C++ include scan (no include cache file)
1> Parsing headers for ChessGameEditor
1> Running UnrealHeaderTool “C:\Dosyalar\UE4Projects\ChessGame11\ChessGame.uproject” “C:\Dosyalar\UE4Projects\ChessGame11\Intermediate\Build\Win64\ChessGameEditor\Development\UnrealHeaderTool.manifest” -LogCmds=“loginit warning, logexit warning, logdatabase error” -rocket -installed
1> Reflection code generated for ChessGameEditor in 19,8894696 seconds
1> Performing 17 actions (2 in parallel)
1> [2/17] Resource ModuleVersionResource.rc.inl
1> PCH.ChessGame.h.cpp
1> [3/17] Resource ChessGame.rc
1> FInteractiveProcess.cpp
1> ChessGame.generated.cpp
1> ChessPieceRook.cpp
1> ChessPieceQueen.cpp
1> ChessPiecePawn.cpp
1> ChessPieceKing.cpp
1> ChessPieceKnight.cpp
1> ChessPiece.cpp
1> ChessGameGameMode.cpp
1> ChessGame.cpp
1> ChessBoard.cpp
1> CECommunication.cpp
1> ChessPieceBishop.cpp
1> [17/17] Link UE4Editor-ChessGame.dll
1> Creating library C:\Dosyalar\UE4Projects\ChessGame11\Intermediate/Build/Win64\UE4Editor\Development\UE4Editor-ChessGame.lib and object C:\Dosyalar\UE4Projects\ChessGame11\Intermediate/Build/Win64\UE4Editor\Development\UE4Editor-ChessGame.exp
1> -------- End Detailed Actions Stats -----------------------------------------------------------
1> Total build time: 159,45 seconds

Maybe CodeLite build button doesn’t call a command it should call, before calling build command? I will take a look if i can find what is the reason. This is all i can do at the moment.

Yaakuro · September 3, 2015, 1:50am

Did you watch my video how to use CodeLite? I explain that targets are projects and for you game you will have two additional projects in your workspace. Let’s say you called your game = TheLast. You will a project called “TheLast” which is your game target and “TheLastEditor” which is your editor target. I recommend watching this at least: CodeLite as primary IDE for UE4 on Linux - YouTube

anonymous_user_71c55af3 · September 3, 2015, 8:54am

Thank you for the link. I was trying to build [Project], but i realized i should build [Project]Editor.

Yaakuro · September 7, 2015, 1:12am

Hi everyone

Here is a patch https://github.com/EpicGames/UnrealEngine/pull/1531 I made for those who are interested using it on Mac and Windows platforms and of course a small fix for all platforms.

There was a small issue in showing the virtual folders correct.
A small fix for all platforms that prevented to start UE4Editor in the DebugGame configuration.

anonymous_user_71c55af3 · September 7, 2015, 1:09pm

Hi . I realized you are using mono for some of the commands in Windows. I think it is not needed. Maybe you can remove it?

EDIT: For example i took these from the project files:

    &lt;Target Name="Cook Game"&gt;mono AutomationTool.exe BuildCookRun -project="C:\Dosyalar\UE4Projects\ChessGame_Release\ChessGame.uproject" -noP4 -nokill -clientconfig=DebugGame -serverconfig=DebugGame -platform=Win64 -targetplatform=Win64 -nocompile -compressed -stage -deploy -cook&lt;/Target&gt;
    &lt;Target Name="Cook Game on the fly"&gt;mono AutomationTool.exe BuildCookRun -project="C:\Dosyalar\UE4Projects\ChessGame_Release\ChessGame.uproject" -noP4 -nokill -clientconfig=DebugGame -serverconfig=DebugGame -platform=Win64 -targetplatform=Win64 -nocompile -compressed -stage -deploy -cookonthefly&lt;/Target&gt;
    &lt;Target Name="Skip Cook Game"&gt;mono AutomationTool.exe BuildCookRun -project="C:\Dosyalar\UE4Projects\ChessGame_Release\ChessGame.uproject" -noP4 -nokill -clientconfig=DebugGame -serverconfig=DebugGame -platform=Win64 -targetplatform=Win64 -nocompile -compressed -stage -deploy -skipcook&lt;/Target&gt;

As you can see it uses mono, which is unnecessery in my opinion since this is Windows.

Yaakuro · September 8, 2015, 4:56am

Well mono on Windows is not needed you’re right must be a bug but what is that ? Are you using the custom builds to cook and package? That is something I did on a whim so better use unreal frontend for that. If you want to have that on windows I can fix that of course

anonymous_user_71c55af3 · September 8, 2015, 7:26am

Ahh, ok. But that on a whim move looks like a pretty good idea to me

You know we should ease everything out

Yaakuro · September 8, 2015, 1:52pm

Ok, I fixed that hopefully but I can’t test it. Hope you can test it. It’s in the same PR https://github.com/EpicGames/UnrealEngine/pull/1531 . It has 3 commits would be nice if you can test all 3.

anonymous_user_71c55af3 · September 8, 2015, 4:38pm

I really wish i could. But my computer is a tost machine which uses a patoto as cpu. I can’t compile the engine myself because RAM is not enough. I only can compile the engine inside Linux using swap, which is useless for you

But i will give it a try inside linux in a few days. Nowadays college has started so i am really busy.

Again thanks for your efforts

anonymous_user_71c55af3 · September 11, 2015, 7:07pm

Hi

I have realized something that needs to be taken care of.

First, the problem is, if the editor is not running, building the project fails. I compared CodeLite with VS to see the difference. After making some research i realized that:

While Editor is not running, if build is started, this output is given:

MESSAGE: Entering directory `C:\Program Files\Epic Games\4.9\Engine\Binaries\DotNet’
C:\WINDOWS\system32\cmd.exe /C “UnrealBuildTool.exe ChessGameEditor Win64 Development -project=“C:\Dosyalar\UE4Projects\ChessGame_Release\ChessGame.uproject””
----------Building project: ChessGameEditor - Development ]----------
Creating makefile for ChessGameEditor (no existing makefile)
Performing full C++ include scan (no include cache file)
Building UnrealHeaderTool…
Creating makefile for UnrealHeaderTool (no existing makefile)
ERROR: Couldn’t find target rules file for target ‘UnrealHeaderTool’ in rules assembly ‘UE4ModuleRules, Version=0.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=null’.
Location: C:\Program Files\Epic Games\4.9\Engine\Intermediate\Build\BuildRules\UE4ModuleRules.dll
Target rules found:
UE4Editor - C:\Program Files\Epic Games\4.9\Engine\Source\UE4Editor.Target.cs
UE4Game - C:\Program Files\Epic Games\4.9\Engine\Source\UE4Game.Target.cs
UnrealHeaderTool failed for target ‘ChessGameEditor’ (platform: Win64, module info: C:\Dosyalar\UE4Projects\ChessGame_Release\Intermediate\Build\Win64\ChessGameEditor\Development\UnrealHeaderTool.manifest).
0 errors, 0 warnings, total time: 00:00:18 seconds

My first guess was something regarding Unreal was wrong. Because when editor running, it wasn’t the case and building was done properly. However i made a comparison with VS and CodeLite and found this.

VS calls build.bat and adds -rocket to command. I made a comparison between all build and clean commands. Here is an example:

As you can guess all rebuild does is calling clean first then build.

Here is the output of new build command:

MESSAGE: Entering directory `C:\Program Files\Epic Games\4.9\Engine\Binaries\DotNet’
C:\WINDOWS\system32\cmd.exe /C “UnrealBuildTool.exe ChessGameEditor Win64 Development -project=“C:\Dosyalar\UE4Projects\ChessGame_Release\ChessGame.uproject” -rocket -DEPLOY”
----------Building project: ChessGameEditor - Development ]----------
Creating makefile for ChessGameEditor (no existing makefile)
Performing full C++ include scan (no include cache file)
Parsing headers for ChessGameEditor
Running UnrealHeaderTool “C:\Dosyalar\UE4Projects\ChessGame_Release\ChessGame.uproject” “C:\Dosyalar\UE4Projects\ChessGame_Release\Intermediate\Build\Win64\ChessGameEditor\Development\UnrealHeaderTool.manifest” -LogCmds=“loginit warning, logexit warning, logdatabase error” -rocket -installed
Reflection code generated for ChessGameEditor in 25,990435 seconds
Performing 17 actions (2 in parallel)
[2/17] Resource ModuleVersionResource.rc.inl
PCH.ChessGame.h.cpp
[3/17] Resource ChessGame.rc
FInteractiveProcess.cpp
ChessGame.generated.cpp
ChessPieceRook.cpp
ChessPieceQueen.cpp
ChessPiecePawn.cpp
ChessPieceKing.cpp
ChessPieceKnight.cpp
ChessPiece.cpp
ChessGameGameMode.cpp
ChessGame.cpp
ChessBoard.cpp
CECommunication.cpp
ChessPieceBishop.cpp
[17/17] Link UE4Editor-ChessGame.dll
Creating library C:\Dosyalar\UE4Projects\ChessGame_Release\Intermediate/Build/Win64\UE4Editor\Development\UE4Editor-ChessGame.lib and object C:\Dosyalar\UE4Projects\ChessGame_Release\Intermediate/Build/Win64\UE4Editor\Development\UE4Editor-ChessGame.exp
-------- End Detailed Actions Stats -----------------------------------------------------------
Total build time: 182,87 seconds
0 errors, 0 warnings, total time: 00:03:04 seconds

I am going to check if those params are needed inside linux. However i doubt it, since you have been using it inside linux for a long time. Also i have no idea what the situation is inside OSX.

**EDIT: **For short -rocket and -DEPLOY for build and -rocket for clean is needed inside Windows.

**EDIT2: **I have tested those inside Linux, and found that those parameters are invalid inside Linux. Don’t know OSX but probably they are Windows only.

Yaakuro · September 18, 2015, 3:16pm

Well I tested with and without it works. What is the deploy flag? Maybe the rocket build is only for those ue4 used from Binaries not the one compiled from source source.

anonymous_user_71c55af3 · September 20, 2015, 11:46am

I have asked it at answerhub. But couldn’t get and exact answer.

Only thing i learned is -rocket means it is being compiled from editor. Therefore not deleting hotreload files(which would crash the engine). However i don’t think thats exactly the truth since VS also uses -rocket. I just don’t know

Shadowriver · October 2, 2015, 5:15am

-rocket means it compile like launcher version, it won’t compile toghther engine souce files only your project modules and project plugins, meaning you can rebuild without worring that your engine bineries will be killed.

Yaakuro · October 31, 2015, 5:57am

Hello friends and fellows

Here a video how to use macros to highlight code in CodeLite. YouTube.

Switch to CodeLite version 9

LuisAlaguna · November 7, 2015, 5:19am

What’s your codelite version and your theme and how do you build and run the project? Mine crash, i believe this.

Yaakuro · November 7, 2015, 1:47pm

Can you give more information? What is crashing? CodeLite? UE4Editor?

HeavenlyGamesBoss · February 12, 2016, 10:52am

@, I am having issues with CodeLite too. I went to plugins in the editor but did not see CodeLite as an option. Do I need to do something before I can see an option to use CodeLite as my IDE? I rather use QT or a built-in code editor. I have been having so much trouble trying to setup Unreal so I can use C++ though that I was ready to try anything just to get a working C++ Unreal environment setup.

HeavenlyGamesBoss · February 14, 2016, 8:15pm

I was able to download the zip of 4.10 and now I see the codelite plugin. Its checked now. Unfortunately, I still cannot get anything to run though CodeLite. I don’t have any issues building the project. I built it in CodeLite and got an executable. I just seem to have some kind of strange runtime error. It crashes saying that it caught a SIG11 and reports that there was a problem accessing a memory address.

Yaakuro · February 23, 2016, 1:37am

I think we solved your problem on youtube right

psychodox · May 31, 2016, 8:46pm

, amazing work! This seems to be working well, Thanks!