Source build IDE (Rider) issue on Linux (Manjaro)

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Okay so I got it working now, due to the help of the Unreal Discord Server :slight_smile:

It seems like it wasn’t about the engine being on an NTFS filesystem drive. It was two things mainly:

  1. The Rider Unreal Plugin wasn’t able to be installed. The issue was that some csproj files had dependencies on packages with vulnerabilities, specifically:

Engine/Source/Programs/AutomationTool/AutomationUtils/AutomationUtils.Automation.csproj
Engine/Source/Programs/AutomationTool/Gauntlet/Gauntlet.Automation.csproj
Engine/Source/Programs/AutomationTool/AutomationTool.csproj

Those were dependent on ImageMagick version 4.7.0.
Changing the version in those files to 4.8.1 did the trick. The Rider Plugin was now able to be installed.

  1. Rider didn’t start compiling when I hit “run”. Ultimately this was because Rider tried to restore NuGet Packages when starting the IDE. Somehow it got stuck and never finished restoring. This lead to Rider not being able to start compiling. When I disabled the options to restore packages in the NuGet settings →

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… it worked. Now this could lead to issues in the future of course, in case I don’t have the necessary packages but the log would most likely give me a NuGet error in this case anyway I think.

So that solved it. I can now run my UE source build with Rider on Manjaro :slight_smile:

Thanks for the help!