UnrealBuildTool Fails on New C++ Project

anonymous_user_3bfa5ed2 · June 25, 2015, 5:07pm

When trying to create a new C++ using the 3rd Person template (also tried with Basic Code and 1st Person), the progress bar stops at about 90% and the following error message is presented:

An error occurred while trying to generate project files.

Running C:/Program Files/Epic Games/4.8/Engine/Binaries/DotNET/UnrealBuildTool.exe -projectfiles -project=“C:/Users//Documents/Unreal Projects/CodeTest4/CodeTest4.uproject” -game -rocket -progress
Discovering modules, targets and source code for game…
UnrealBuildTool Exception: ERROR: Failed to read environment variables from XML file: C:\Users\AppData\Local\Temp\tmp2E90.tmp

The tmp file mentioned exists and is empty. I have been able to generate Blueprint projects successfully and run through some tutorials, but cannot seem to generate a C++ starter project.

Steve_Robb · June 25, 2015, 5:59pm

Hi ,

It’s possibly related to the spaces in your path name, as reported here:

Could you post your C:\Users\AppData\Local\Temp\tmp2E90.tmp.bat file here for analysis?

Steve

anonymous_user_3bfa5ed2 · June 25, 2015, 6:16pm

Renamed, because .bat extension was being blocked from upload.

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Steve_Robb · June 25, 2015, 6:35pm

Ah, ok.

Steve

anonymous_user_3bfa5ed2 · June 25, 2015, 6:31pm

That other issue you linked suggested running the contents of the batch file, which led me to a problem in my path (it had a dangling quotation mark). Re-ran the batch and it appears to have populated the .tmp file. I think this has me unstuck. Thanks!