Build missing Manifest.xml

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I’ve been working on attempting to automate my builds on Mac using the terminal.

Once it reached the “Build Command Started” stage shortly into it, it throws
“ERROR: BUILD FAILED UBT Manifest (Project)/Intermediate/Build/Manifest.xml does not exist.”

I looked through the log and it mentions “XGE was requested, but is unavailable, so we won’t use it” not sure if this is important but seems like it shouldn’t be a problem. Otherwise, I tried adding a Manifest.xml to the folder, and it gets deleted

It checks if UnrealBuildTool.exe exists, then deletes Manifest.xml in the project, checks if the BuildTool exists again, and tries to generate a manifest and returns ExitCode 0 (so I assume success since other ExitCode 0’s indicated that). Then it checks if Manifest.xml exists again and fails

There is a Manifest.xml in the (Engine)/Intermediate/Build folder and it updates after the “generate manifest” step. (is it maybe pointing to the wrong space then?)

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Some extra information I realized after re-reading might be useful:

The engine file path is on my desktop, my project file path is in my documents

The command I’m using is:
./RunUAT.command -ScriptsForProject= BuildCookRun -project= -noP4 -clientconfig=Development -serverconfig=Development -nocompile -nocompileeditor -installed -ue4exe=UE4Editor -utf8output -platform=Mac -build -cook -unversionedcookcontent -compressed -stage -deploy -run

Should I have my project located somewhere inside my Engine folder?

Also, it’s a built engine as opposed to launcher installed

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Same issue here, seems to only affect source builds. I’m also automating my packaging, but on Windows.

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Similar issue for me. I wonder how to get around it

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Packaging from the editor still works for me–as a temporary solution.

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More testing info: building in editor updates (Engine)/Intermediate/Build/Manifest.xml (and deletes it after updating it) but does not create a manifest in (Project)/Intermediate/Build/

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After some further testing, I started trying to figure out what each of the arguments contributed

it turns out the “-installed” argument is what was causing the error. Removing “-installed” fixed my issue. I think it’s because it’s being run as “noeditor” as opposed to being turned into an installer first or something.

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For future reference: I had the same issue and for me it was fixed by deleting the Intermediate directory in the project folder

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