Hi guys, I saw many many people ask this question and apparently there is no absolute answer to this question.
this happened for me when I uninstall my visual studio 2015 cause unreal 4.18 no matter I do use VS 2015 and I want to use 2017 and I saw some people solve this problem with uninstalling VS 2015.
when I uninstall VS 2015 receive this error when I want to create a new C++ project:
The project could not be compiled. Would you like to open it in Visual Studio?
Running f:/Program Files/Epic Games/UE_4.19/Engine/Binaries/DotNET/UnrealBuildTool.exe MyProject451 Development Win64 -project="F:/c++ New/New folder/MyProject451/MyProject451.uproject" -editorrecompile -progress -NoHotReloadFromIDE
Performing full C++ include scan (building a new target)
Creating makefile for MyProject451 (no existing makefile)
@progress push 5%
Parsing headers for MyProject451Editor
Running UnrealHeaderTool "F:\c++ New\New folder\MyProject451\MyProject451.uproject" "F:\c++ New\New folder\MyProject451\Intermediate\Build\Win64\MyProject451Editor\Development\MyProject451Editor.uhtmanifest" -LogCmds="loginit warning, logexit warning, logdatabase error" -Unattended -WarningsAsErrors -installed
Reflection code generated for MyProject451Editor in 7.2801937 seconds
@progress pop
Performing 9 actions (4 in parallel)
[2/9] Resource ModuleVersionResource.rc.inl
[3/9] Resource PCLaunch.rc
SharedPCH.Engine.cpp
MyProject451GameModeBase.cpp
MyProject451.init.gen.cpp
MyProject451.cpp
MyProject451GameModeBase.gen.cpp
[8/9] Link UE4Editor-MyProject451.dll
[9/9] Link UE4Editor-MyProject451.lib
LINK : fatal error LNK1181: cannot open input file 'ws2_32.lib'
Creating library F:\c++ New\New folder\MyProject451\Intermediate\Build\Win64\UE4Editor\Development\UE4Editor-MyProject451.lib and object F:\c++ New\New folder\MyProject451\Intermediate\Build\Win64\UE4Editor\Development\UE4Editor-MyProject451.exp
ERROR: UBT ERROR: Failed to produce item: F:\c++ New\New folder\MyProject451\Binaries\Win64\UE4Editor-MyProject451.dll
Total build time: 34.18 seconds (Local executor: 0.00 seconds)
photo of error :
many peoples mention its relate to Windows SDK and there is windows SDK in installing if I add more let me know.
I thought if I install unreal 4.19 its maybe get fixed but it didn’t.
it seens ue4 genrate C++ files for VS 2015.
I hope there is anyone known how to solve this problem and guide me how.