Unreal Engine Issues
Unreal Engine Issues
FASTBuild cannot compile 5.5 for Windows.
UE - Foundation - Cpp Tools - UnrealBuildTool - Oct 8, 2024A licensee reported errors related to the sarif file when compiling version 5.5 using FASTBuild. The problem is that the FB implementation code doesn't know how to deal with the /experimental cl.exe ...
Prevent unnecessary rebuilds of windows resource files
UE - Foundation - Cpp Tools - UnrealBuildTool - Sep 20, 2023How Necessary are BUILT_FROM_CHANGELIST and BUILD_VERSION in Resource Files? We've been investigating ways to improve the speed of our iterative engine builds, and have found that the vast, vast maj ...
Debug information is sometimes missing when compiling with cl-clang
UE - Foundation - Cpp Tools - UnrealBuildTool - Aug 24, 2023Via UDN: As has been discussed previously here and in CL 20055361, debug information is sometimes missing when compiling with Clang. We've pinpointed this to debug information not being emitted fo ...
.natvis for external modules is not supported
UE - Foundation - Cpp Tools - UnrealBuildTool - Aug 22, 2023Currently UBT supports linking in .natvis files when modules are compiled, this should be extended to pull in .natvis files from External modules that are linked into a module. Instead of scanning ...
Extension methods in Rules errors due to ambiguous call
UE - Foundation - Cpp Tools - UnrealBuildTool - Jun 16, 2023The extension methods seem to be getting compiled into multiple rules dlls Example .Build.cs // In TestPlugin.Build.cs using System; using UnrealBuildTool; publicclass TestPlugin : Module ...
JobObject appears to break /ZI pdb compiles
UE - Foundation - Cpp Tools - UnrealBuildTool - Mar 9, 2023It seems that the [Link Removed] UBT creates to ensure any child processes are terminated on close is somehow affecting the mspdbsrv process that cl is spawning and terminating it when cl is finishe ...
PATH not passed to NMake script when building Android from Visual Studio
UE - Foundation - Cpp Tools - UnrealBuildTool - Jan 25, 2023After upgrading from UE5.0.3 to UE5.1, we started seeing this error when trying to build Android Development from Visual Studio (VS2022 17.2.1): Running UnrealBuildTool: dotnet "..\..\Engine\Binari ...
Compile Unreal Editor with Visual Studio 2022 can result in an error - Error executing cl.exe, tool returned code: STATUS_ACCESS_VIOLATION
UE - Foundation - Cpp Tools - UnrealBuildTool - Jan 17, 2023Additional information in the comments. Potential work around if VS has a prompt suggesting installing addition components is to install:MSVC v143 - VS 2022 C++ Arm64 Build Tools(v14.33-17.3)MSVC v ...
AdditionalPluginDirectories when set are not reflected in generated projects
UE - Foundation - Cpp Tools - UnrealBuildTool - Jan 3, 2023Bug report viaUDN: We have some plugins that we'd like to share between projects, that we don't want to maintain multiple copies of. The AdditionalPluginsDirectories option for Project's solves tha ...
*.vcxproj commands do not include -Project parameter
UE - Foundation - Cpp Tools - UnrealBuildTool - Jan 3, 2023In some cases, building a cpp target by only passing -Target= can select an undesired target to build. If -Project= is also passed when available that will ensure the correct target is built when du ...