Hi,
I’m having an issue running pre-compiled editor binaries after syncing with UGS, and some guidance would be very much appreciated!
The editor crashes immediately, and after inspecting crash logs, it looks like it’s failing to load some ThirdParty dlls (crash log is at the bottom of this post).
I think the issue is probably that I haven’t submitted [FONT=courier new]/Engine/Binaries/ThirdParty to perforce, but many online resources have suggested I do not commit any binaries. This also just makes sense to me - the point of using UGS is to bundle up required binaries for artists. Does this exclude ThirdParty binaries?
If this is the case, then my main question is: When using UGS, what needs to be added to perforce manually, and what is packaged in the build?
Eventually, I plan on creating a separate perforce stream for artists and programmers, which will filter out files as required. But first, I just need to get a pre-compiled build running at all and figure out file dependencies.
Here’s some more context:
I’ve managed to set up most of the UGS systems required. The launcher can pull the latest UnrealGameSync.exe build from perforce, the metadata server is running and connects properly, I can open my project, and I can build the editor using RunUAT.bat and BuildGraph.
I’ve pulled the editor source from github, and can build it in Visual Studio. I’m using Visual Studio 2019, so had to update the toolchain to use version v14.22 manually, but I can now build and run the editor from vs2019.
My project setup looks like this:
[FONT=courier new]UnrealEngine/
– Engine/
– FeaturePacks/
– LocalBuilds/
– Samples/
– MyGame/
– Templates/
– <.bat, .sln, etc files>
To build and submit the engine, I’m using the following command from the [FONT=courier new]UnrealEngine/MyGame/ directory (after setting up the [FONT=courier new]uebp_USER and [FONT=courier new]uebp_PORT env vars to point to my perforce server)
..\Engine\Build\BatchFiles\RunUAT.bat BuildGraph ^
-Script=Engine/Build/Graph/Examples/BuildEditorAndTools.xml ^
-Target="Submit To Perforce for UGS" ^
-set:EditorTarget=MyGameEditor ^
-set:ArchiveStream=//depot/dev-binaries ^
-p4 ^
-submit
This is pulled directly from the UGS Reference docs. It correctly builds and publishes the editor binaries to the perforce server under [FONT=courier new]//depot/dev-binaries/++depot+main-Editor.zip
After setting up the [FONT=courier new]UnrealEngine/MyGame/Build/UnrealGameSync.ini file correctly, I can then use UGS to sync and unpack the editor correctly in another workspace with the “Sync Precompiled Editor” option turned on.
This will download the engine and place all my files in the correct locations.
However, when I then try to open the editor, it will crash on startup. Here’s the output from [FONT=courier new]UnrealEngine/Engine/Saved/Crashes/_0000/UE4.log
[FONT=courier new]Not using cached read wrapper
Started task graph with 5 named threads and 35 total threads with 3 sets of task threads.
Stats thread started at 0.071804
Failed to load GFSDK_Aftermath_Lib.x64.dll
Failed to load ‘…/…/…/Engine/Binaries/ThirdParty/nvTextureTools/Win64/nvtt_64.dll’ (GetLastError=126)
File ‘…/…/…/Engine/Binaries/ThirdParty/nvTextureTools/Win64/nvtt_64.dll’ does not exist
Failed to load ‘…/…/…/Engine/Binaries/ThirdParty/libsndfile/Win64/libsndfile-1.dll’ (GetLastError=126)
File ‘…/…/…/Engine/Binaries/ThirdParty/libsndfile/Win64/libsndfile-1.dll’ does not exist
Failed to load Sound File dll
LibSoundFile failed to load. Importing audio will not work correctly.
Failed to load ‘…/…/…/Engine/Binaries/ThirdParty/ICU/icu4c-53_1/Win64/VS2015/icudt53.dll’ (GetLastError=126)
File ‘…/…/…/Engine/Binaries/ThirdParty/ICU/icu4c-53_1/Win64/VS2015/icudt53.dll’ does not exist
Windows GetLastError: The operation completed successfully. (0)
Again, this looks like it’s just missing some ThirdParty libraries. Any help is appreciated!
