Visual Studio on Mac with Unreal Engine (last version)

Superkorlas · October 19, 2017, 7:33pm

Hi, I would like to know if there are any form of use UE on mac without Xcode. I would like to use Visual Studio 2017 like main IDE to programming my project without install Xcode.
Thanks in advance.

PD: my English is not very good, excuse me if I have some mistakes.

SRombauts · November 2, 2017, 3:30pm

No, Visual Studio for Mac has no support for C++, as stated in various places (MSDN link):

Visual Studio for Mac is a developer environment optimized for building mobile and cloud apps with Xamarin and .NET. There has no option to create C++ project in this version
some other community members reported this suggestion to the Visual Studio Product Team, please check this: Support C++ in Visual Studio for Mac and you can vote it, then waiting for the feedback from the Visual Studio Product Team.

Also, as reformulated in the UE forums it reads:

Looks like vs for mac is just a rebranded xamarin studio, and only supports C#, no C++.

Edit: But, since the recent Unreal Engine 4.18 release (2017/10/23), you can use Visual Studio Code under macOS, Linux, and Windows.
You need to install .NET Core 2.0 runtimes, and some other dependencies for full C++ support and debugging.

From the release notes:

To use Visual Studio Code to build and debug all project types, some additional extensions are required. On all platforms, make sure the Microsoft C/C++ extension, and the C# extension are installed. On Linux and Mac, the “Mono Debug” extension is required to debug C# projects, and the “LLDB Debugger” extension is required to debug C++ projects.

anonymous_user_b2fe00ad · April 22, 2018, 7:38pm

@SRombauts I’m struggling trying to get a viable unreal dev env on a mac.

In attempting to use the Visual Studio Code option, I’m running into these issues:

Not a direct blocker, but in terms of installing required plugins, I search in VS but can’t find the LLDB Debugger mentioned above
Following a basic Unreal tutorial, when I open the the project in Visual Studio Code, I get errors like the below. It makes me thing something is probably wrong with a configuration path for headers (maybe Unreal macros are not working?)
I can compile and run my project in Unreal and it all seems to work fine, which I take as a strong indicator that the problem is with my Visual Studio Code set up

Any help greatly appreciated. Really what would be amazing would be a comprehensive step-by-step guide to set up Unreal 4.19 with Visual Studio Code on a Mac, but I can’t seem to find that anywhere.

this is the header files that’s generating errors:

gist.github.com

https://gist.github.com/beatthat/3f5d8ee8e75837a6819804660c8afc61

udemy_unreal_basic_header_generates_errors_in_vsc.h

// Fill out your copyright notice in the Description page of Project Settings.

#pragma once

#include "CoreMinimal.h"
#include "Components/ActorComponent.h"
#include "PositionReport.generated.h"


UCLASS( ClassGroup=(Custom), meta=(BlueprintSpawnableComponent) )

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…and the attached image is what I see in Visual Studio Code (it’s rejecting the inheritance :, which is why I’m thinking maybe this is a downstream problem from its not understanding the macro above?)

SRombauts · April 25, 2018, 5:51am

Sorry, but I don’t have a Mac, and I am not using Visual Studio Code

anonymous_user_32bb36cf · May 28, 2018, 9:56pm

Seriously, you proudly present support for VS Code in your release note, but you don‘t provide a clear guide on how to use this option? Would be a big help for Mac users. Help.

anonymous_user_11bb08dd · October 8, 2020, 10:37am

Indeed… I am following this guide but I can not seem to get the installation right in Mac…

Does anyone know how to set up visual studio code for Mac in order to use it with UE?