What version of Unreal and Visual Studio are you using? Have you tried File > Refresh Visual Studio Project in Unreal?
I am using Visual Studio 19 Community Edition with Unreal Engine 4.26. I don’t know how to refresh VS19 project in unreal since I can’t enter unreal. I get following messages:
That would mean you have a compilation error and no built binaries to fall back on (I assume because you just deleted them)
Go into Saved > Logs and then post the most recent log.
Log file open, 04/06/21 10:41:55
LogInit: LLM is enabled
LogInit: LLM CsvWriter: off TraceWriter: off
LogInit: Display: Running engine for game: BullCowGame
LogPlatformFile: Not using cached read wrapper
LogTaskGraph: Started task graph with 5 named threads and 11 total threads with 3 sets of task threads.
LogStats: Stats thread started at 1.543451
LogD3D11RHI: Loaded GFSDK_Aftermath_Lib.x64.dll
LogICUInternationalization: ICU TimeZone Detection - Raw Offset: +1:00, Platform Override: ‘’
LogPluginManager: Mounting plugin MeshPainting
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LogXGEController: Cleaning working directory: C:/Users/jdrag/AppData/Local/Temp/UnrealXGEWorkingDir/
LogXGEController: Cannot use XGE Controller as Incredibuild is not installed on this machine.
LogInit: Warning: Incompatible or missing module: BullCowGame
Running C:/Program Files/UE_4.26/Engine/Binaries/DotNET/UnrealBuildTool.exe Development Win64 -Project=“D:/Programming/C++/GameDevCourse/BuildCowGame-starter-kit/BullCowGame-starter-kit/BullCowGame.uproject” -TargetType=Editor -Progress -NoEngineChanges -NoHotReloadFromIDE
@progress push 5%
@progress pop
Building BullCowGameEditor…
Using Visual Studio 2019 14.28.29913 toolchain (C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2019\Community\VC\Tools\MSVC\14.28.29910) and Windows 10.0.18362.0 SDK (C:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Kits\10).
[Upgrade]
[Upgrade] Using backward-compatible build settings. The latest version of UE4 sets the following values by default, which may require code changes:
[Upgrade] bLegacyPublicIncludePaths = false => Omits subfolders from public include paths to reduce compiler command line length. (Previously: true).
[Upgrade] ShadowVariableWarningLevel = WarningLevel.Error => Treats shadowed variable warnings as errors. (Previously: WarningLevel.Warning).
[Upgrade] PCHUsage = PCHUsageMode.UseExplicitOrSharedPCHs => Set in build.cs files to enables IWYU-style PCH model. See https://docs.unrealengine.com/en-US/Programming/BuildTools/UnrealBuildTool/IWYU/index.html. (Previously: PCHUsageMode.UseSharedPCHs).
[Upgrade] Suppress this message by setting ‘DefaultBuildSettings = BuildSettingsVersion.V2;’ in BullCowGameEditor.Target.cs, and explicitly overriding settings that differ from the new defaults.
[Upgrade]
Building 4 actions with 4 processes…
@progress ‘Compiling C++ source code…’ 0%
@progress ‘Compiling C++ source code…’ 25%
[1/4] BullCowCartridge.cpp
D:\Programming\C++\GameDevCourse\BuildCowGame-starter-kit\BullCowGame-starter-kit\Source\BullCowGame\BullCowCartridge.cpp(5): error C2144: syntax error: ‘void’ should be preceded by ‘;’
LogInit: Warning: Still incompatible or missing module: BullCowGame
LogCore: Engine exit requested (reason: EngineExit() was called)
LogExit: Preparing to exit.
LogModuleManager: Shutting down and abandoning module DesktopPlatform (48)
LogModuleManager: Shutting down and abandoning module PlatformCryptoOpenSSL (46)
LogModuleManager: Shutting down and abandoning module PlatformCryptoTypes (44)
LogModuleManager: Shutting down and abandoning module PlatformCrypto (42)
LogModuleManager: Shutting down and abandoning module XGEController (40)
LogXGEController: Cleaning working directory: C:/Users/jdrag/AppData/Local/Temp/UnrealXGEWorkingDir/
LogModuleManager: Shutting down and abandoning module AnimationModifiers (38)
LogModuleManager: Shutting down and abandoning module AudioEditor (36)
LogModuleManager: Shutting down and abandoning module PropertyEditor (35)
LogModuleManager: Shutting down and abandoning module TextureCompressor (32)
LogModuleManager: Shutting down and abandoning module RenderCore (30)
LogModuleManager: Shutting down and abandoning module Landscape (28)
LogModuleManager: Shutting down and abandoning module SlateRHIRenderer (26)
LogModuleManager: Shutting down and abandoning module OpenGLDrv (24)
LogModuleManager: Shutting down and abandoning module D3D11RHI (22)
LogModuleManager: Shutting down and abandoning module AnimGraphRuntime (20)
LogModuleManager: Shutting down and abandoning module Renderer (18)
LogModuleManager: Shutting down and abandoning module Engine (16)
LogModuleManager: Shutting down and abandoning module CoreUObject (14)
LogModuleManager: Shutting down and abandoning module NetworkFile (12)
LogModuleManager: Shutting down and abandoning module CookedIterativeFile (10)
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LogModuleManager: Shutting down and abandoning module SandboxFile (6)
LogModuleManager: Shutting down and abandoning module PakFile (4)
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LogExit: Exiting.
Log file closed, 04/06/21 10:44:05
I presume you didn’t end your Words variable with a semicolon
TArray<FString> Words =
{
// words
// ...
}; // <- missing semicolon
What about your class definition?
class UBullCowCartridge : ...
{
}; // <
I only use words here
That isn’t your class definition. The class definition is in the header file.
I didn’t put Words there
// Fill out your copyright notice in the Description page of Project Settings.
#pragma once
#include "CoreMinimal.h"
#include "Console/Cartridge.h"
#include "BullCowCartridge.generated.h"
UCLASS(ClassGroup=(Custom), meta=(BlueprintSpawnableComponent))
class BULLCOWGAME_API UBullCowCartridge : public UCartridge
{
GENERATED_BODY()
public:
virtual void BeginPlay() override;
virtual void OnInput(const FString& Input) override;
void InitGame();
void EndGame();
void ProcessGuess(FString Guess);
bool IsIsogram(FString Word) const;
// Your declarations go below!
private:
FString HiddenWord;
int32 Lives;
bool bGameOver;
};
Right, but that’s not the reason you’re getting a compilation error. The error says you’re missing a semicolon before line 5 of BullCowCartridge.cpp
Would you mind showing the start of that file?
this is my start of the file(line 5 is the start of the definition void UBullCowCartridge::BeginPlay()):
// Fill out your copyright notice in the Description page of Project Settings.
#include "BullCowCartridge.h"
#include "HiddenWordList.h"
void UBullCowCartridge::BeginPlay() // When the game starts
{
Super::BeginPlay();
InitGame();
}
void UBullCowCartridge::OnInput(const FString& Input) // When the player hits enter
{
if (bGameOver)
{
ClearScreen();
InitGame();
PrintLine(TEXT("Nr. of possible words: %i"), Words.Num());
}
else
{
ProcessGuess(Input);
}
}
Is that log the most recent? i.e. the one without “backup” in its name?
yes
Then that’s a bit confusing since I’m not seeing any missing semicolons.
However the fact that you’re getting an underline for FString in this screenshot
Makes me think you saved the HiddenWordList.h somewhere else. Could you hover over the tab so it shows the path?
It should be under “Source” and if you didn’t change the path when creating the file it’s most likely under “Intermediate”. It needs to be in the same location as BullCowCartridge.cpp (in Source).
it saved it for some reason in D:\Programming\C++\GameDevCourse\BuildCowGame-starter-kit\BullCowGame-starter-kit\Intermediate\ProjectFiles
Yeah, VS Community will default to that path for Unreal projects, most likely due to the generated files that are created. There should be a note about this in the course.
he mentioned that vs will default save it somewhere else then its supposed to, but I wasn’t prompted to set the location to which I want it to be saved, so I just hoped for the best. Is there any way I can fix this
Just move the file in File Explorer.
