# Really Quick Question About Source Code

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**Tags:** unreal-engine, UE5-0, Code, packaging-projects, CPP, question\
**Created:** [November 12, 2022, 11:58pm UTC](https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/really-quick-question-about-source-code/689529 "2022-11-12T23:58:08Z")\
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**Post date:** [November 14, 2022, 12:37am UTC](https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/really-quick-question-about-source-code/689529/4 "2022-11-14T00:37:18Z")

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> [@bigMojitos](#):
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> you can’t really compile stuff on an external SSD but correct me if I’m wrong.

You can totally build on an external drive, as long as the external drive is always available. You’ll want it to be formatted as NTFS, not as FAT32, though, so you’d need to re-format it after you unpack it. Doing this is inconvenient, though – one of the several reasons why people generally end up graduating to desktop workstations when they get deeper into UE game development.

If you already have an internal drive in a laptop, then you can buy a bigger drive, and clone all the old data to the new drive, and then extend the file system to have more space.

> [@bigMojitos](#):
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> would this same procedure of packaging my engine be possible on one of the AWS UE5 Machines

I don’t see why not.

> [@bigMojitos](#):
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> is there a tutorial out there?

I found a few links that go in that direction:

> [@\[TOOL\] Create your own binary build for your team](https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/tool-create-your-own-binary-build-for-your-team/81421):
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> I just made a small app that can help you build binary version of UE4 from source build. [[Unreal Binary Builder - What is it?] ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fuvvBMrWX8s) https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ryanjon2040/UE4-Binary-Builder/master/Documentation/Screenshot\_1.png https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ryanjon2040/UE4-Binary-Builder/master/Documentation/Screenshot\_2.PNG https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ryanjon2040/UE4-Binary-Builder/master/Documentation/Screenshot\_4.PNG Download (with source): [Unreal Binary Builder v…](https://www.buymeacoffee.com/ryanjon2040/unreal-binary-builder-v3-0-released)

[https://www.cairansteverink.nl/cairansteverink/blog/unreal-engine-4-editor-binaries-build-automation/](https://www.cairansteverink.nl/cairansteverink/blog/unreal-engine-4-editor-binaries-build-automation/)

The later link has a bad SSL certificate, but it essentially recommends submitting `/Game/Binaries/...` and `/Game/Plugins/*/Binaries/...`

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