Msbuild is not recognized

Development Programming & Scripting
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Hi Shoiko,

This last version of the info file looks very much like what we were expecting to see originally. I am curious. Did you try to generate project files again after updating the Environment Var?

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No it still failed. same MSBuild error.

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I just wanted to collect all of the information that we have about this issue in one place to make it a little easier to look through. If you could confirm that this is accurate, or correct where things are wrong, that would be great.

  • Unreal Engine source code located on F: drive.
  • VS version - Visual Studio 2013 Express for Windows Desktop.
  • VS installed on C: drive.
  • VS 2012 has been uninstalled.
  • VS 2008 has been uninstalled.
  • VS 2003 has been uninstalled (needs to be reinstalled later for legacy tool support).

Is that all correct? The information shown in the info file you provided is very similar to the results I get from the batch file. Have you tried repairing/re-installing VS 2013? If you try that, have you considered switching to the Community version?

Also, just to let you know, it is not uncommon to have multiple versions of msbuild installed in various locations on a computer. We just need to determine why the UnrealBuildTool can’t locate the version it needs.

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All of the above is correct. I am reying to use the GITHub Client to get the source vs using the Zip file located on git to see if anything is different with this. I will also try the community version as well. Will report back with the data by tomorrow.

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Hi Shoiko,

I just wanted to check in and see if installing the Community version of Visual Studio 2013 helped at all with this issue.

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My machine actually is out of commission i had a power surge and I hav to rebuild… :frowning:

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Hi Shoiko,

Sorry to hear about the trouble with your computer (I’ve been in that situation before). Have you had a to rebuild? If not, there is no rush. I will mark this issue as resolved for internal tracking purposes, but please let us know if this issue continues to occur once you have your new computer set up.

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Simple fix: (worked for me) Add the path to msbuild.exe to the path environment variable. in my case it was “C:\Program Files (x86)\MSBuild\14.0\Bin” Instant Fix!!!