I just grabbed unreal engine 5.0.3 from github and ran setup.bat. During the setup process it pulled up a link to download some .net things but that failed at the time so I figured I would just try and set everything up with .net after. So, I have since downloaded visual studio 2019. I made sure to select ‘Desktop development with C++’ as well as the ‘.Net desktop development’ and ‘.net cross-platform development’ when installing visual studio. I have also downloaded Microsoft ASP.NET Core 3.1.15 - Shared Fraemwork. When I look at ‘Apps & Features’ it shows Microsoft .NET SDK 5.0.410(x64) installed.
When I try and run ‘GenerateProjectFiles.bat’ I get a long list of errors, which start with the following:
D:\unreal_engine_5_0_3\Engine\Source\Programs\Shared\EpicGames.Core\EpicGames.Core.csproj : error NU1202: Package JetBrains.Annotations 2021.2.0 is not compatible with netcoreapp3.1 (.NETCoreApp,Version=v3.1). Package JetBrains.Annotations 2021.2.0 does not support any target frameworks. [D:\unreal_engine_5_0_3\Engine\Source\Programs\UnrealBuildTool\UnrealBuildTool.csproj]
D:\unreal_engine_5_0_3\Engine\Source\Programs\Shared\EpicGames.Core\EpicGames.Core.csproj : error NU1202: Package Microsoft.Extensions.Logging 5.0.0 is not compatible with netcoreapp3.1 (.NETCoreApp,Version=v3.1). Package Microsoft.Extensions.Logging 5.0.0 does not support any target frameworks. [D:\unreal_engine_5_0_3\Engine\Source\Programs\UnrealBuildTool\UnrealBuildTool.csproj]
D:\unreal_engine_5_0_3\Engine\Source\Programs\Shared\EpicGames.Core\EpicGames.Core.csproj : error NU1202: Package Microsoft.Extensions.Logging.Abstractions 5.0.0 is not compatible with netcoreapp3.1 (.NETCoreApp,Version=v3.1). Package Microsoft.Extensions.Logging.Abstractions 5.0.0 does not support any target frameworks. [D:\unreal_engine_5_0_3\Engine\Source\Programs\UnrealBuildTool\UnrealBuildTool.csproj]
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I tried uninstalling ASP.NET core but still get the same error. What am I doing wrong?
It works with VS2022 so you shouldn’t need to install VS2019.
The steps are basically:
Clone from github.
Run Setup.bat
Run GenerateProjectFiles.bat
Open UE5.sln in visual studio.
You shouldn’t need to install anything else. I suggest uninstall everything and start again from scratch. Report the first error you encounter (if any).
I did this process when I had originally installed visual studio 2022. I uninstalled it and everything else related to it via visual studio uninstaller. I then tried installing visual studio 2019. I will try uninstalling again and maybe clone unreal engine again and see what happens. I’ll report back once I do
1.) Uninstalled visual studio 2019
2.) Uninstalled .net runtime and asp.net core stuff
3.) re-cloned 5.0.3 engine
4.) ran setup.bat
5.) downloaded visual studio 2022 and selected
C++ profiling tools
C++ AddressSanitizer (optional)
Windows 10 SDK (10.0.18362 or newer)
Unreal Engine Installer
6.) ran GenerateProjectFiles.bat and got same error after ‘Building UnrealBuildTool’
D:\unreal_engine_5_0_3\Engine\Source\Programs\Shared\EpicGames.Core\EpicGames.Core.csproj : error NU1202: Package JetBrains.Annotations 2021.2.0 is not compatible with netcoreapp3.1 (.NETCoreApp,Version=v3.1). Package JetBrains.Annotations 2021.2.0 does not support any target frameworks. [D:\unreal_engine_5_0_3\Engine\Source\Programs\UnrealBuildTool\UnrealBuildTool.csproj]
D:\unreal_engine_5_0_3\Engine\Source\Programs\Shared\EpicGames.Core\EpicGames.Core.csproj : error NU1202: Package Microsoft.Extensions.Logging 5.0.0 is not compatible with netcoreapp3.1 (.NETCoreApp,Version=v3.1). Package Microsoft.Extensions.Logging 5.0.0 does not support any target frameworks. [D:\unreal_engine_5_0_3\Engine\Source\Programs\UnrealBuildTool\UnrealBuildTool.csproj]
I have no idea. I’ve never explicitly installed such a thing. Thought it was a part of unreal. I don’t see anything related in my programs. Though I just tried looking it up and found this site:
Some kind of package for a package manager for .net? I have no idea. This must’ve installed on my system at some point when trying to deal with .net stuff. I’ll have to see if I can uninstall things
Actually it looks like its used in EpicGames.Core so it must be an actual dependency of UnrealBuildTool. Hmmm.
So I think the error is coming when its trying to build UnrealBuildTool which is a C# program that is used to build unreal engine (including generating project files for visual studio). The main .csproj is UnrealBuildTool.csproj and EpicGames.Core.csproj is a dependency.
One of the dependencies of that build is not installed correctly. Maybe netcoreapp3.1 like the error message says? Did you install the C# stuff when you installed Visual Studio? Do you have “.NET desktop development” checked in Visual Studio installer?
Try going to Visual Studio Installer > Modify > Workloads > .Net desktop development. Is that checkbox checked?
So After trying to delete a bunch of nuget and jetbrains folders I broke the visual studio installation. I restored a previous system image and I have visual studio 2022 installed again. When looking at the modify tab I have selected ‘.net desktop development’, ‘Desktop development with C++’ and ‘Game Development with C++’. I noticed I did not have the ‘unreal engine installer’ checked so I checked that as well. However, I’m still getting the same issue. I have no idea how this is happening. There is also an ‘ASP.NET and web development’ tab, should I select that as well? What I don’t understand is if this stuff is required why doesn’t the github page list these as dependencies?
if windows 11 is installed, which SDK should I install? the latest for windows 10 version? or for version 11?
after updating UE 5.0.3. visual studio 2022 does not start for me. so I started looking for information about the error and saw that I had Windows 10 SDK 10.0.18362 installed.
I hope this was the problem of the startup error
I had to update the nuget.config file with a v3 source.
It is located here: C:\Users\{username}\AppData\Roaming\NuGet\nuget.config
and needs the following content: