Hi! I’ve been trying to get the unreal engine source to work. I’ve already setup the unreal launcher which works fine but when I downloaded the source from github and ran the setup.bat file it stops at “Downloading prerequisites” and then a windows prompt appears that asks for permission which I press yes on, and then the program just dies. I’m on windows 10 and I downloaded the release branch from github. Also, at first I had visual studio 2013 installed, and then I also installed the 2015 version but that didn’t appear to make any difference.
I have also updated windows as well as tried to run the bat file as an administrator, and neither of those things worked.
There should be some sort of error message given if Setup.bat if failing to download correctly. If you believe that it isn’t finishing properly, it may be best to open command prompt directly and run the .bat from there, as there should be no chance of it closing the command prompt window automatically.
Can you try this and post any error messages you receive?
Hi! I just tried it in the command prompt and it displays " Installing Prerequisites…" for less than a second and then nothing more, am I just being stupid here since I’m assuming that it should do more than that, or give some sort of prompt indicating that it’s done? Thanks for the reply.
After installing prerequisites, if it closes without giving you any errors, then it’s good to go. You also likely already had these installed due to your binary installations as well. The major part of the Setup.bat is the content it downloads. Have you tried running GenerateProjectFiles.bat and then compiling the Editor?
Yeah I got it running and it’s working fine, I guess I just got a little confused when it just instantly closed the application without seemingly doing anything. Thanks for the help though.