Having issues generating project files

Development Programming & Scripting C++
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Hello everyone, im having a problem with a project I’m working on with a friend. The issue is my friend added some plugins to the project and it works fine on his computer, however I can’t even open the project now. It fails to build and it says I have to build it manually but I’m trying to generate the project files and it fails and throws this error. I tried googling for a solution but I can’t seem to find something that could help. So can someone help me solve this?

(We are using mostly blueprints but the project is on C++ mode for plugin reasons)

Running C:/Program Files/Epic Games/UE_5.5/Engine/Build/BatchFiles/Build.bat  -projectfiles -project="C:/Users/theoy/Documents/GitHub/JeuQuiFaitPeur/JeuQuiFaitPeur.uproject" -game -rocket -progress -log="C:\Users\theoy\Documents\GitHub\JeuQuiFaitPeur/Saved/Logs/UnrealVersionSelector-2025.03.25-21.12.42.log"
Using bundled DotNet SDK version: 8.0.300
Running UnrealBuildTool: dotnet "..\..\Engine\Binaries\DotNET\UnrealBuildTool\UnrealBuildTool.dll" -projectfiles -project="C:/Users/theoy/Documents/GitHub/JeuQuiFaitPeur/JeuQuiFaitPeur.uproject" -game -rocket -progress -log="C:\Users\theoy\Documents\GitHub\JeuQuiFaitPeur/Saved/Logs/UnrealVersionSelector-2025.03.25-21.12.42.log"
Log file: C:\Users\theoy\Documents\GitHub\JeuQuiFaitPeur\Saved\Logs\UnrealVersionSelector-2025.03.25-21.12.42.log
Log file: C:\Users\theoy\AppData\Local\UnrealBuildTool\Log_GPF.txt

Generating VisualStudio project files:
Discovering modules, targets and source code for project...
Unable to parse C:\Users\theoy\Documents\GitHub\JeuQuiFaitPeur\Intermediate\Build\BuildRulesProjects\JeuQuiFaitPeurModuleRules\JeuQuiFaitPeurModuleRules.csproj: System.Xml.XmlException: '\' is an unexpected token. The expected token is ';'. Line 20, position 51.

   at System.Xml.XmlTextReaderImpl.Throw(Exception e)

   at System.Xml.XmlTextReaderImpl.Throw(String res, String[] args)

   at System.Xml.XmlTextReaderImpl.HandleEntityReference(Boolean isInAttributeValue, EntityExpandType expandType, Int32& charRefEndPos)

   at System.Xml.XmlTextReaderImpl.ParseAttributeValueSlow(Int32 curPos, Char quoteChar, NodeData attr)

   at System.Xml.XmlTextReaderImpl.ParseAttributes()

   at System.Xml.XmlTextReaderImpl.ParseElement()

   at System.Xml.XmlTextReaderImpl.ParseElementContent()

   at System.Xml.XmlLoader.LoadNode(Boolean skipOverWhitespace)

   at System.Xml.XmlLoader.LoadDocSequence(XmlDocument parentDoc)

   at System.Xml.XmlDocument.Load(XmlReader reader)

   at System.Xml.XmlDocument.Load(String filename)

   at UnrealBuildTool.VCSharpProjectFile..ctor(FileReference InitFilePath, ILogger Logger, DirectoryReference BaseDir) in C:\Program Files\Epic Games\UE_5.5\Engine\Source\Programs\UnrealBuildTool\ProjectFiles\VisualStudio\VCProject.cs:line 2548
Total execution time: 3.85 seconds
Existing C# project C:\Users\theoy\Documents\GitHub\JeuQuiFaitPeur\Intermediate\Build\BuildRulesProjects\JeuQuiFaitPeurModuleRules\JeuQuiFaitPeurModuleRules.csproj must contain a Debug configuration
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Try to delete Intermidiate and saved folders, then try again.
Did you add Intermidiate folder to git ignore?

Also, you can add plugins inside the project folder, this way you will make it part of the source control.

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Hi! I did erase the itermediate folder as well as the saved, .sln and binaries. I did not modify the git ignore file that github had for unreal. We put our plugins in a Plugins folder in the project folder so idk if we messed up somewhere… :smiling_face_with_tear:

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The error mentions Intermidiate folder, so you delete it, then click Generate and then there appears a new Intermediate folder, and then it fails?

Also, did you install the correct version of VS using Unreal (or other) guide, to install all of the components, like Game Development with C++ etc

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Hello! Yes it is exactly what happens. I delete the files and try to generate them again but it fails and gives me the above error on the logs. I did install Visual Studio 2022 with all the components too. I’m really lost here…

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Well, it seems weird indeed. I guess I would Verify the UE files, and redownload the whole project from repo to be sure I have the exact same files as your friend (make a backup copy before that)