UE5 name.project requires a temporary target.cs to be generated (Water plugin is enabled)

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Hi, I had same issue with Water plugin on UE 4.27.2 on Windows 8.1.

Solved it like this:

  1. Installed Visual Studio Community 2022 from here https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/ (during install it will ask package you want, I’ve chosen “gaming #2 - for unreal engine and other c++ stuff” )
  2. Installed Windows SDK from Windows SDK - Windows app development (I chose “download the .ISO”) (during install I didn’t touch any settings, all checkboxes were checked)

After that, packaging went without problems.

Errors verbatim for seach engines:

.uproject requires a temporary target.cs to be generated (Water plugin is enabled)
.uproject does not look like uproject file but no targets have been found!
ERROR: Windows SDK must be installed in order to build this target.
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