Unreal c++ visual studio error

Development Programming & Scripting C++
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Hey everyone,

I am fairly new to unreal and using it with visual studios to create a project. however, I really want to give it a go :slight_smile: when I go to create the c++ project unreal throws this error:

An error occurred while trying to generate project files.

Running C:/Program Files (x86)/Epic Games/4.12/Engine/Binaries/DotNET/UnrealBuildTool.exe -projectfiles -project=“C:/Users/beckymu8/Documents/Assignment/Assignment.uproject” -game -rocket -progress
Visual C++ 2015 toolchain does not appear to be correctly installed. Please verify that “Common Tools for Visual C++ 2015” was selected when installing Visual Studio 2015.
Visual C++ 2015 toolchain does not appear to be correctly installed. Please verify that “Common Tools for Visual C++ 2015” was selected when installing Visual Studio 2015.
Discovering modules, targets and source code for project…
UnrealBuildTool Exception: ERROR: Failed to find cl.exe in the default toolchain directory C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 14.0\Common7\Tools…/…/VC/bin/x86_amd64\cl.exe. Please verify that “Common Tools for Visual C++ 2015” was selected when installing Visual Studio 2015.

any advice would be nice :slight_smile:

Thank you everyone in advance

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Same here.

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when installing visual studio community, you have to do a custom installation and make sure you click to include all of the c++ tools