Community Tutorial: Building Unreal Engine 5.6 From the GitHub Source Code on Microsoft Windows

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In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to build any version of Unreal Engine from the GitHub source code on Microsoft Windows. While we’ll focus on the upcoming Unreal Engine 5.6, the steps apply to both UE4 and UE5 versions.

You’ll learn how to:

  • Access the Unreal Engine 5.6 source code on GitHub
  • Set up the required build environment
  • Build Unreal Engine from source
  • Strategies to work around possible build issues.

A Linux-specific tutorial is coming soon.

https://dev.epicgames.com/community/learning/tutorials/b6qa/building-unreal-engine-5-6-from-the-github-source-code-on-microsoft-windows