What version of the engine did you get that working on ? If push comes to shove I would use 4.7.6, but i tried to add this plugin to a 4.7.6 project and it says:
The following modules are missing or built with a different engine version:
UE4Editor-JoystickPlugin.dll
Would you like to rebuild them now?
when i click yes it says:
projectName could not be compiled. Try rebuilding them from source manually