Packaging Wont Work

[Domirox]

Whenever I try to package my project in windows 64bit in engine version 4.23 it creates a new tab in my browser of the ue4 documentation page. How can I fix this, Thanks.

The window it opens: https://docs.unrealengine.com/en-US/Engine/Tutorial/Installation/InstallingVisualStudioTutorial.InstallingVisualStudioTutorial/index.html

[ixicalibur]

@anonymous_user_1db9b5ab

To package a project for a specific platform, click on File > Package Project > [PlatformName] in the Editor’s main menu:

You will be presented with a dialog for selecting the target directory. If the packaging completes successfully, this directory will then contain the packaged project.

Confirming the target directory will then initiate the actual process that packages the project for the selected platform. Because packaging can be very time consuming, this process is executed in the background, and you can continue to use the Editor. A status indicator will be displayed in the bottom right corner of the Editor to indicate the progress:

The status indicator also provides a Cancel button to stop the packaging process. In addition, the Show Log link can be used to display extended output log information, which is useful for figuring out what went wrong if the packaging process fails, or for catching warnings that could reveal potential bugs in the product:

The most important log messages, such as errors and warnings, are logged to the regular Message Log window:

https://docs.unrealengine.com/Images/Engine/Basics/Projects/Packaging/message_log.jpg

If these windows are not visible, they can be accessed by the Window > Developer Tools > Output Log / Message Log options.

Hope this helps you!
Regards,

thats not relevant to the question.
**literaly clicking on the "**File > Package Project > [PlatformName]" button does nothing in this instance and opens the docs main page when it should refer to the visual studio install page.
OP do you have visual studio installed? (community 2019) sometimes that pages opens when the toolchcains are missing that are required to package.

Unreal Engine still uses VS 2017 by default, but also supports VS 2019

this is the link that should open but doesn’t

Setting Up Visual Studio

[anon5482394]

hi me too i have the same problem, im tryng to understand what’s the problem, i have installed 4.24.1 with android flagged in UE install option, VS community 2017 with C++
im tryng also to understand if my android option in UE install setup is the same that nvidia android work setup file which is located in the sub engine folder, because i have tried to run it and nothing happen

[luquit3s]

SOLVED: Install Visual studio community ( www.visualstudio.com/download/) with C++ package content checked and restart. Is a Substance plugin issue.

[Laiebi]

@luquit3s

SOLVED: Install Visual studio community ( www.visualstudio.com/download/) with C++ package content checked and restart. Is a Substance plugin issue.

Thank you so much, moved to new OS a while ago and since then only worked on the project but never packaged it. So had the same error that just the plain website opened and installing visual studio solved it. Would have taken me soooo much longer to find that out ty!

[anonymous_user_1c507444]

I installed Visual studio community and it has definitely NOT solved the problem for me.I have only just starting using UE4 but without packaging it is useless.

[anonymous_user_dbd717bc]

I have zhe same problem

[Ebrahim.MR (Ebrahim)]

I had the same issue too. but I set the “Staging Directory” in the Project Settings->Project - Packaging->Project.
I also set the Build Configuration to “Shipping”

I hope it helps someone.

[Hady97.2]

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[iremuyg]

i tried almost all the solutions given on this page but nothing solved it… any other ideas?

[iremuyg]

should i just uninstall unreal engine and install it again?

[anonymous_user_b8e4b83b1 (anonymous_user_b8e4b83b)]

are you packaging it for windows?

[LVilchez]

That was the solution for me. Just use an updated NDK. I updated to 4.27 without updating NDK.

There was no error message, nothing. Just the doc page popping up when trying to package.

To be fair, it says in the doc page that engine version 4.27 needs NDK r21b, but an error message would have been nice.

[HollyWretch]

In case anyone encounters this issue in the future, make sure you have actually also set Visual Studio (version) as your IDE in the editor settings, and the correct compiler toolchain for the platform you’re trying to package.