Moving a c++ project from Mac to Linux

anonymous_user_389e656c · May 24, 2015, 9:37pm

I’ve got a working c++ project on Mac. I would like to move this project to a Linux machine to package a linux standalone server.

How do I generate the necessary project files in linux (makefiles or anyway the equivalent of the Xcode project) (possibly using only command line scripts and not the GUI)?

Yaakuro · May 25, 2015, 9:05am

Hi

Do you want to build the UE4 Editor on linux?

anonymous_user_389e656c · May 25, 2015, 9:10am

Not necessarily. I just want to package a linux standalone server for my project, but just copying the c++ project from mac to linux doesn’t seem to work.

I can build the UE4 Editor on linux if I want, but on this specific machine I’m facing several issues with the graphic card (which is rather old), so I’d prefer to build the server using only command line tools.

Yaakuro · May 27, 2015, 9:14pm

Hi

Run the ./Setup.sh first then the ./GenerateProjectfiles.sh script. After that you can build the editor, server etc with make. For example

**make UE4Editor ShaderCompileWorker UnrealPak UnrealLightmass UnrealFrontend UE4Server UE4Game **

The line above will build almost everything. Look into the make file too see which targets are supported

anonymous_user_389e656c · May 27, 2015, 9:16pm

I don’t want to build the editor, I want to package a standalone server through commands like these:

Yaakuro · May 28, 2015, 12:24am

To package on Linux you have to compile the unrealpak, server etc anyway. Use UnrealFrontend with that you can package, cook, deploy whatever you want.