How to prevent plugin recompilation

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I have 2 plugins in my project’s ‘Plugins’ folder along with their source files, and every time I build the solution in Visual Studio, the plugins get recompiled even though nothing was changed in their sources. Is there a way to skip the compilation for the 2 plugins?

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Did you manage to find a solution to this?

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Found the answer: go into the plugin’s .build.cs and in its constructor add bUsePrecompiled = true

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Added the answer below

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Thank you very much for your answer. Unfortunately however, now it’s creating the library [ProjectName]Editor-000X.dll that seems to be taking a long time. Is there also something that I should change in the project’s .Build.cs to make it work? (I currently have “PCHUsage = PCHUsageMode.UseExplicitOrSharedPCHs”. It’s worth keeping in mind that the greatest offender among the project plugins has a PrivatePCHHeaderFile set.)

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I don’t know what’s causing that. I had the issue with VRExpansionPlugin and GitSourceControl. I only added that option right after the constructor declaration.

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Thank you. Frustratingly, setting that option on some of the plugins of the project I’m working on seems to cause DLL load problems. I shall have to continue investigating.

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Did you find a solution?