How to control FixDeps build step

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Hello,

I’m building a plugin for Unreal and whenever I alter the plugin code I get FixDeps:

UnrealBuildTool.exe MyProj Linux Development -project=MyProj.uproject -editorrecompile -progress -noubtmakefiles -canskiplink
Performing 3 actions (4 in parallel)
[1/3] Compile Vica.cpp
[2/3] Link libUE4Editor-Vica.so
[3/3] FixDeps UE4Editor
Fixing libUE4Editor-Landscape.so
Fixing libUE4Editor-UnrealEd.so
Fixing libUE4Editor-GraphEditor.so
(other 'Fixing's)

If I don’t touch my code, UBT doesn’t involve FixDeps, since I specified -canskiplink option.

I want to control FixDeps step because, in my belief, the editor doesn’t depend on my plugin and therefore I don’t need to re-link libUE4Editor-* libs.

How can I do it?

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Could you check (by doing ldd on the affected libraries) that they don’t link against your .so? Also, does your library name appear among the ones being fixed?

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$ ldd libUE4Editor-Landscape.so libUE4Editor-UnrealEd.so libUE4Editor-GraphEditor.so libUE4Editor-PropertyEditor.so libUE4Editor-SourceControl.so libUE4Editor-Kismet.so libUE4Editor-BlueprintGraph.so libUE4Editor-KismetCompiler.so libUE4Editor-MovieSceneTools.so libUE4Editor-AIModule.so libUE4Editor-AITestSuite.so libUE4Editor-MaterialUtilities.so libUE4Editor-Niagara.so libUE4Editor-UMG.so libUE4Editor-CollisionAnalyzer.so libUE4Editor-LogVisualizer.so | grep libUE4Editor-Vica.so
$

My lib doesn’t appear among fixed libraries.

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Hi ,

Is there any progress in this question? Do you know how to completely control this process?

5

Could you please paste .Build.cs of your plugin, or at least list all the engine modules it depends upon?

6

I have several modules in my project, so all the modules project depends on are: Core, Json, Engine, Sockets, UnrealEd, Networking, Media.

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FixDeps runs even though the project is up to date. What does this step do? Why is it necessary?