GAME option of GenerateProjectFiles.bat does NOT work properly

UE - Foundation - Cpp Tools - UnrealBuildTool - Jul 13, 2021

if using -GAME option of GenerateProjectFiles.bat, it does not work correctly by the following codes.protected void AddProjectsForAllModules( List<FileReference> AllGames, Dictionary<FileReference, ...

WaitMutex behaves poorly when there are casing differences in the same path

UE - Foundation - Cpp Tools - UnrealBuildTool - Jan 5, 2021

The proposed solution here is to make the casing of the path provided to the hashing function for the mutex consistent with something like:publicstatic string GetUniqueMutexForPath(string Name, stri ...

Compiling with VS2019 16.6 later causes garbled characters in output window

UE - Foundation - Cpp Tools - UnrealBuildTool - Nov 10, 2020

Using old behavior by applying true to NMakeUseOemCodePage property solves this issue.  in VCProject.cs​// Project globals (project GUID, project type, SCC bindings, etc) { VCProjectFi ...

Intellisense autofill not working when including files using quotations

UE - Foundation - Cpp Tools - UnrealBuildTool - Sep 2, 2020

Intellisense does not try and autofill included files when using quotation marks. ...

UBT Output log encoding does not match if non-ASCII characters are in the UBT output

UE - Foundation - Cpp Tools - UnrealBuildTool - Nov 21, 2019

UBT Output log encoding does not match if non-ASCII characters are in the UBT output. Before UE4.23, UBT output encoding problems only exist in the editor "Compiler Log" under Developer Tools, and i ...

Race condition in full builds of UE4 engine source

UE - Foundation - Cpp Tools - UnrealBuildTool - Sep 26, 2019

This is a race condition caused by how "Clean.bat", a batch file used during rebuilds, tries to manually rebuild the UnrealBuildTool project when it runs. This causes a spam of UnrealBuildTool build ...

UnrealHeaderTool is always executed in a Code Project from an InstalledBuild

UE - Foundation - Cpp Tools - UnrealBuildTool - Apr 23, 2019

UnrealHeaderTool is always executed in a Code Project from an InstalledBuild Discovered during the verification of [Link Removed], as stated when verifying that issue, this issue only occurs in Bin ...

Packaging that involves a compilation process causes custom icons to not show in the taskbar on Windows in Binary

UE - Foundation - Cpp Tools - UnrealBuildTool - Nov 30, 2018

Packaging that involves a comilation process in the Binary editor causes custom Windows icons to be ignored in packaged games. This could either be seen in a Code project or in a Blueprint Only proj ...

Remote compile Action RPG for iOS fails with rsync errors - unable to download Manifest.xml from the remote Mac

UE - Foundation - Cpp Tools - UnrealBuildTool - Oct 31, 2018

While attempting to verify [Link Removed], I tried to build an iOS package of ActionRPG. The build failed and the following errors appear in the output log:Log snippet moved to comment, see below ...

"Found plugin in two locations" error when calling BuildPlugin on .uplugin named the same as one in \Engine\Plugins\...

UE - Foundation - Cpp Tools - UnrealBuildTool - Oct 2, 2018

In 4.20, calling BuildPlugin on a plugin outside the \\Engine\Plugins\... folder whose .uplugin has the same filename as a plugin inside \\Engine\Plugins\... generates the following error: ERROR: F ...