Using Source Control to develop on both Windows and Mac

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Hi everyone!

I am developing an unreal 5 game and would like to be able to work on it on both my Windows machine and my Macbook Pro (M1 Max) machine.

I have unreal 5.0.3 working on both machines, and am using Azure Devops GIT repo for source control.

I was able to push my entire project (.uproject file, Config, Content, and Source) to Azure and then pull it down on my Macbook.

However, when I click the .uproject file and it attempts to rebuild, I get the dreaded “could not be compiled. Try rebuilding from source manually.” error. I have removed the vscode config file, I’ve deleted the binaries, intermediate, and saved files, and it still doesn’t want to play nice.

Any suggestions on what to try?

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Could you post the error log? ( ProjectName/Saved/Logs )
I was using Windows and Mac, I just needed to recompile the project but it didn’t show any errors.

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Thanks for the reply! The Saved folder gets generated, but the entire folder is empty (so no logs). Does that give any clues on what might be happening?

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No, but one thing that might help you is that I used .gitignore for some folders. Remove these folders from your repository.

I’m using .gitignore from:
https://www.toptal.com/developers/gitignore/api/unrealengine

If it still shows “could not be compiled…”, it will create an error log. Post this log for us.

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Tried it and still nothing :(. No error logs are appearing.