Excluding Modules from compiling for target client

Development Programming & Scripting
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I have plugin that have server side code. I don’t want the client to compile the code, and if it’s possible, I don’t want to add macro #if WITH_SERVER_CODE everywhere.

Is it possible to exclude modules compiling on client side?
Based on: Unreal Engine Modules | Unreal Engine 5.1 Documentation | Epic Developer Community
I should able to use "ExcludelistTargets " ： 【“Client”】but the when I try build Development client, the intermediate directory for the modules still generated and compile.
Is ExcludelistTargets feature broken?

I tried IncludelistTargets too, with only “Server” and “Editor”, but the module still built on Development server

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In case anyone else stumbles across this, the official docs are still wrong as of 5.6. After hunting through the source code I found the supported parameters for including/excluding modules are actually:

  • PlatformAllowList/PlatformDenyList
  • TargetAllowList/TargetDenyList
  • TargetConfigurationAllowList/TargetConfigurationDenyList
  • ProgramAllowList/ProgramDenyList
  • GameTargetAllowList/GameTargetDenyList