Knowledge Base: Enabling Logging in Shipping Builds

[Joe_Radak]

This article was written by Zhi Kang Shao
When packaging an Unreal Engine project using the Shipping configuration, by default all logging is disabled so the application will not produce .log files to the Saved/ folder.…

https://dev.epicgames.com/community/learning/knowledge-base/vzvZ/unreal-engine-enabling-logging-in-shipping-builds

[Origins (Ganesh)]

I would like to know. Will it work for mobile platforms ?

[Reahreic]

Why the hell does one need to recompile the engine just to get logging information in the shipping build???

I know the standard UE editor log is overly verbose, but it’d still be useful to be able to flag certain warnings and errors for logging in the event a deployed build has issues that need replication

[A.RADIX (Adrien RADIX)]

Thank for this tutorial ! I post what I found here about modifiyng log destination folder :

Enable logging in shipping build using Installed Builds?

Also, we can modify the log file name and destination if you start your app with a command line : C:\Deployment\Package\Windows\Binaries\Win64\MyProject-Win64-Shipping.exe ABSLOG="C:\MyCustomLogFolderPath\MyCustomLogFile.log" If you run your app with this param, your log is where you need it to be. This function in code source allow us to do it : [image]