Could not be compiled. Try rebuilding from source manually

HELLO.
I’m a college student major in software-engineering, trying to learn UE4 on my own.
While following the tutorial of Programming Quick Start, this error occurs.
I’ve been using VS2013 before installing UE4 on my PC, and i still am using VS2013. Could this be the cause?
How should i solve it?
Much obliged!

As you already said Unreal Engine does not support Visual Studio 2013 since version 4.10. You have to update to at least 2015 if not "15. Source

This might solve your problem but I will not guarantee it. If there are further errors just post a comment. I will try to help.

Thanks a lot! I’m downloading VS2015 now and hope that would solve the problem. [Pretend that i can send a kiss emoji to you…]

Hey Schadek , i’ve installed VS2015 and uninstalled VS2013, but the problem is still there. Could you help? thx.

Hi ,

If you open the project in Visual Studio and try to build it, could you provide the last few lines in the Output window? That may help us determine what is going wrong.

Also, what version of Visual Studio 2015 did you install? Was it the Community version?

Did you try to build the solution from within Visual Studio? This error message usually only occurs only if you want to start Unreal via its project file instead of Visual Studio. If you do not have a VS solution in your project folder yet right click on the project file and select ‘Generate Visual Studio project files…’. Select your game project as the StartUp project in the solution explorer und start a full rebuild. Is there some error message?

Hi ,

We have not heard back from you for a while. Do you still need help with this issue? I will be marking this post as resolved for internal tracking purposes, but please feel free to add a new comment and re-open this post if you need any more help.