How to create an EXE of the engine?

Development Programming & Scripting
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Hello,

I am not using the launcher to install & use Unreal.
I downloaded Unreal from Github and compiled it myself in order to activate Chaos.
However, I have to open the .sln in Visual Studio and start debugging to launch the engine.
I would like to create a .exe of the engine, but I don’t know how to do this?

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Hi, do you have an engine folder? There should be a UE4Editor application in binaries, Engine\Binaries\Win64\UE4Editor.exe

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Once you got a UE4 project you can also start up engine, or rether project it self by double clicking *.uproject file in project folder

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Hey,

You can make an exe by building the Visual Studio project (right click UE4 on right pane → Build).

Your exe will be located in “PathToSources”\Engine\Binaries\Win64\UE4Editor.exe

PS. When you launch UE4 through Visual Studio, it automatically builds it and create the exe

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Thanks a lot!
So all this time I had the .exe but did not find it… haha

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How to build exe file automatically from GitHub code? rather than doing manually?

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There is none, you need to build it in VS.

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You can do that using GitHub workflow and the MSBuild command line

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@louga31 Do you know the exact workflow for building using github workflow?