Its quite a generic error from VS, I remember getting that a lot when doing random incorrect build steps.
Go through the checklist on GitHub literally word by word. Make sure you have all the pre-reqs installed in VS 2017 (C++ Game development etc.). Make sure you the Setup and Generate Project files complete happily. Make sure you right click and build the UE4 project at the top.
Also, make sure wherever your building, you don’t have any spaces or dots or hashes in the file path to the build area. File paths should be simple and not include special characters, something like like D:/Game/UE4_24_3/… They Should NOT be D:/Hey Game/WoW.Clone-2/Source&/