What is the best way to add an external Visual Studio Project (.sln) to Unreal

Development Pipeline & Plugins
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Hello, guys!

We have an external Microsoft Visual Studio project (a solution (.sln) file that contains several vcxproj), that builds a DLL of a third-party service. Currently we are building the dll from the external solution, and then we are loading it from the Unreal project, which works fine.

Is there a way to include the external project files (the .sln or the .vcxproj) into the Unreal project? Our goal is to:

  1. To include all source files in order to easily locate, place breakpoints and debug it.
  2. To build the external DLL from the Unreal solution.
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Hello!

There is no direct support for external (non-UE) based project in the generation tool. You can work around the project by making a copy of the generated solution and renaming it. That renamed solution will be stable until a new engine version or when a new project\program is added. You can also set your project as a dependency of the Unreal game as this information is stored at the solution level.

Martin

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Thanks, Martin!