Cavrnus Collab Viewer Visual Studio Setup

Cavrnus Collab Viewer Visual Studio Setup

If the following dialogs are encountered when attempting to open the project, it indicates the required Visual Studio files have not been generated. These dialogs typically appear when launching the project through the .uproject file.

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To continue, right-click CavrnusCollabViewer.uproject

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Now select Generate Visual Studio Project Files

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Now wait for the process to complete. If successful, CavrnusCollabViewer.sln will be created.

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This means the project has successfully compiled

If this process failed, continue through this guide…

Visual Studio Requirements

  1. Download Visual Studio 2022 Community Edition Here (Latest)

    1. Current known version to work is 17.12.4 - this should not matter though.

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VS Community 17.12.4

Required Workloads

  • .NET Desktop Development

  • Desktop Development with C++

  • Game Development with C++

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Required workloads

Individual Components

  • Required compiler tools

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  • Required Targeting Packs

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Targeting packs

Verify Installation

Navigate to → C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Community\VC\Tools\MSVC

Build Tool 14.38.33130 MUST be present. It’s fine if others exist. The UnrealBuildTool is simply looking for the target build tool.

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14.38.33130 must be in this folder. The 14.38 MSVC build tool install handles this.

This should fix create the needed development environment required to compile and run Cavrnus Collab Viewer Template

 

 

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