Fixes for Marketplace(Linux) and VS Code intellisense fix

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Yes workaround for missing compiler path has been added in 1.2.0-insiders2
But there was an upstream Unreal Engine commit as well: https://github.com/EpicGames/UnrealEngine/commit/c3785db9c96ac0790df09a6b184f2b1d7e8b6802
I am pulling this commit to see if it fixes it, if yes the fix should be in next Unreal Engine patch release as well.

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Neither of these fixes are working for me on a Mac.

Iā€™ve tried the find and replace method and creating a settings.json with the appropriate Mac hierarchy as suggested in this thread.

VSCode output console returns:

Unable to resolve configuration with compilerPath """cl.exe".  Using "/usr/bin/clang" instead.

Two quotation marks appear before the ā€œcl.exeā€ where they werenā€™t before. The second method does nothing as far as I can tell.

Incidentally, I switched from Xcode to VSCode because I could not get code auto-complete to work there either.

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The recent bugs effected multiple IDEā€™s not just VS Code but VS Code has a large community on gamedev.tv and thats why talks are in that contextā€¦ However as VS Code is opensource we can reach developers more easily.

  1. What is your engine version ? and also your vscode versionā€¦ so that I can help you better.
  2. First Try installing this extension in your vscode https://gist.github.com/boocs/f63a4878156295b6e854cac68672f305
  3. You donā€™t have to do both workarounds as the second one will overwrite the first one with a totally different intellisense handling. the find and replace all method is suggested. This is the video for that workaround https://www.gamedev.tv/courses/learn-unreal-engine-c-developer-4-22-for-video-game-development/lectures/17467871
  4. The 4.25 intellisense fix by ā€œgit applyā€ is only meant to be used if you have engine built by source which is mostly on Linux.
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Iā€™m using VSCode 1.53 and Unreal 4.26.1.

It looks like installing the extension is unsupported on 4.26.1. Sad face. :frowning:

I might just bite the bullet and downgrade until this gets fixed.

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Most of the recent versions of Unreal do have intellisense bugs, 4.25.x and 4.26 have these intellisense bugs so you will have to do these workaroundsā€¦ However other versions may carry other bugs as Unreal Engine is a huge software and there will always be certain bugs that you may have to workaround. So make sure what version is right for you before installing.

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I have just been trying these fixes with 4.26.1 too. It seems that something is different with the compileCommands json file so I thought maybe Unreal had fixed it but Iā€™m still getting red squigglies and no intellisense. Iā€™m going to downgrade to 4.22 for now just to avoid these issues altogether so I can actually progress with the course.

Just for reference, with 4.26.1 my compileCommands json file has a number of entries that look like this:

{
	"file": "C:\\\\Users\\\\redta\\\\Desktop\\\\Unreal Projects\\\\Learning\\\\Source\\\\Learning\\\\Learning.Build.cs",
	"command": "cl.exe @\"C:\\Users\\redta\\Desktop\\Unreal Projects\\Learning\\.vscode\\compileCommands_Learning\\Learning.182.rsp\"",
	"directory": "C:\\Program Files\\Epic Games\\UE_4.26\\Engine\\Source"
}
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Thanks for the infoā€¦ It will be great if you can share your whole compile commands json using pastebinā€¦ I am still exploring 4.26.1 vscode side of things so maybe I can help in the future. @Redtama

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@SHuRiKeN Sure thing: https://pastebin.com/6DUYea8k