Install and Build Voxel Plugin on Linux

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I am trying to develop on Linux platform and I understand there is no way to install plugins from the Marketplace directly on Linux. So I had a friend download the files on his Windows machine and then send them to me over the Internet manually as a zipped package.

I extracted the plugin package to the Engine/Plugins/Other sub-folder, deleted the Binaries and Intermediaries folders, then started the Unreal Editor. The Unreal Editor picked-up the plug-in and it appeared in the plugins UI. I enabled the plug-in and the Unreal Editor restarted to start rebuilding the plugin natively here. Unfortunately the Editor was not able to build the plugin with the following error message:

The following modules are missing or built with a different engine version:

Voxel
VoxelGraph
VoxelHelpers
VoxelNiagara
VoxelEditor
VoxelGraphEditor
VoxelEditorDefault
VoxelExamples

Engine modules cannot be compiled at runtime. Please build through your IDE.

I don’t really understand what the engine is expecting, perhaps there are Binaries and Intermediaries folders within those sub-modules that are confusing the engine as well.

Is there a clear path for building modules on Linux? where is the documentation for this?

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Hey! Voxel Plugin creator here.

If you want to use the plugin on linux, grab the files directly from the github: GitHub - Phyronnaz/VoxelPlugin: Voxel Plugin for Unreal Engine

Then put the plugin in your project plugin directory (So you have YourProject/Plugins/VoxelFree/VoxelFree.uplugin).

That way, the editor will be able to build it on startup.

Cheers!

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Great! this did the trick. In fact I just created a new “Plugins” folder beneath my project and cloned the VoxelFree Git repo into it. Thank you!

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I have tried to do this but form me doesn’t work! I have put all the folder that are on github, and put it in a Plugins folder in a Project path.
When I try to open the project is open one windows that say:
“the following modules are missing ot build with different engine version:
VoxelGraph
VoxelFoliage
VoxelNiagara
…
Would you like to rebuild them now?”
I click yes and another message say “Could not be compiled. Try rebuilding from source manualy”

I have also tried to rebuild with QTcreators but doesn’t work.
Some one can help me?

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I have tried to do this but form me doesn’t work! I have put all the folder that are on github, and put it in a Plugins folder in a Project path.
When I try to open the project is open one windows that say:
“the following modules are missing ot build with different engine version:
VoxelGraph
VoxelFoliage
VoxelNiagara
…
Would you like to rebuild them now?”
I click yes and another message say “Could not be compiled. Try rebuilding from source manualy”

I have also tried to rebuild with QTcreators but doesn’t work.
Some one can help me

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I got the same problem. Still no solution.

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Same here in 2024. When is this going to be fixed for linux