Generating MSVS Project files for the Engine

Development Programming & Scripting C++
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I’m a very new user to this product, but I am a pro software developer.

I’m following instructions at…

Trying to build the UE4 Engine.

On Win7 x64
I have…

  1. Verified version 4.1 installed correctly and the Launcher works.
  2. Installed VS Express 2013 and have it running.

The instructions call for GenerateProjectFiles.bat to be ran.

I only have a \Unreal Engine\4.1\Engine\Build\BatchFiles\RocketGenerateProjectFiles.bat

and when I run it I get the following error, looks to me like it wants the project file ? I thought it was suposed to create that project file ?

Setting up Rocket project files…
UnrealBuildTool Exception: System.IO.FileNotFoundException: Could not find file
‘C:\devel\Unreal Engine\4.1\Engine\Source\Programs\UnrealBuildTool\UnrealBuildTo
ol.csproj’.
File name: ‘C:\devel\Unreal Engine\4.1\Engine\Source\Programs\UnrealBuildTool\Un
realBuildTool.csproj’
at System.IO.__Error.WinIOError(Int32 errorCode, String maybeFullPath)

etc…

Please advise.

Thank you for your help,

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Ok, I checked the GitHub repo. It looks like I’m missing allot of files from the repository.
However, When I “Verify install” in the Launcher It seems ok.

So… The Launcher software is a subset of the files listed on the repo ?

Looks like the following is required.

  1. Clone the github repo.
  2. Run the launcher downloading the engine.
  3. “verify install”

I will try these steps and see if this is correct.

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In order to build UE4 from source, you do not need the launcher, as the launcher downloads the binary version of the engine without source code access.

Follow the following steps:
1.) Go here https://github.com/EpicGames/UnrealEngine/releases/tag/4.1.1-release.
2.) download 4.1.1-release.zip, Required_1of2.zip, Required_2of2.zip and Optional.zip.
3.) Extract everything to a new directory, e.g. C:\UE4\4.1.1.
4.) Go to the root folder and run “GenerateProjectFiles.bat” as administrator.
5.) After the project files have been generated, open “UE4.sln” with Visual Studio.
6.) Build the engine using “Development Editor”, “Win64”.

Cheers

4

Oh,

I will do that, I see my mistake now.

Thank you so very much for your support !

-areal

5

No problem, glad I was able to help. :wink: