Hi, im getting the following output error when trying to package my game. It was working fine then just recently I noticed it told me I did not have Visual Studio installed (which surely it must have been as its packaged fine before). I installed it and still had no luck. Then have tried completely reinstalling both Unreal 4 and Visual Studio when prompted. What’s the issue and how do I rectify it?
I’m also on Windows 10 6 4bit and have made sure common tools is installed during the installation.
Thanks a lot,
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Hello HomeGrownHeroz,
From looking at this log, it seems that there are two error messages that are the main culprits:
MainFrameActions: Packaging (Windows (64-bit)): UnrealBuildTool: ERROR: Windows SDK v8.1 must be installed in order to build this target.
MainFrameActions: Packaging (Windows (64-bit)): WindowsPlatform.get_Compiler: WARNING: Visual C++ 2015 toolchain does not appear to be correctly installed. Please verify that "Common Tools for Visual C++ 2015" was selected when installing Visual Studio 2015.
For the first one, could you download the Windows SDK v8.1 and install that to see if it will fix this issue? You can find that on Microsoft’s website here.
For the second one, please open Control Panel > Programs & Features > Microsoft Visual Studio 2013 and select Change/Modify. Once the installer comes up, select “Modify” and you’ll see a list of options. Please select “Common Tools for Visual C++ 2015” under the Programming Languages > Visual C++ section and then press Update. This’ll add the necessary components.
Thanks for the suggestions. Common tools is already installed but I noticed I have Visual Studio Community 2015 with Updates installed, not 2013. Does that make a difference? It was the link that I was presented with inside Ue4 when I tried to package the game.
I have also installed the SDK from the link provided but had no luck. I’ve attached another log file.
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That was a mistype on my part, It should be 2015. Also please be aware that there are multiple entries listed as “Common Tools” but they are different and the “Common Tools for Visual C++ 2015” is the one you need. That message is still present meaning that it isn’t installed.
Awesome! That did the trick. Thanks so much 
Do you know what could have caused this issue when it was working before then?
If these tools are necessary for the packaging to work properly, then should Unreal install them during the initial setup?
Cheers again!
What is decided with the initial setup for Visual Studio is in Microsoft’s hands, not ours unfortunately. We only provide the installation package which is provided by Microsoft.
The most common reason it stopped working without Visual Studio, since I’m assuming you didn’t add any code to the project yourself, is that you added or activated a plugin that needs to be compiled upon packaging, which isn’t possible without Visual Studio installed.