Unable to compile game

Erin_C · March 27, 2020, 10:07am

I’m using Windows 10, and I have VS updated to 16.5, but I’m still getting the same compiling error message:“BullCowGame could not be compiled. Try rebuilding from source manually”.
I have tried opening the game normally from the launcher itself (it actually shows up as a project), to opening up UE4’s launcher to then link to the uproject file in the game folder itself.

My log file is below. Does anyone have an idea of what might be causing the issue? Thanks!

Log file open, 03/27/20 20:25:26
LogWindows: Failed to load ‘aqProf.dll’ (GetLastError=126)
LogWindows: File ‘aqProf.dll’ does not exist
LogWindows: Failed to load ‘VtuneApi.dll’ (GetLastError=126)
LogWindows: File ‘VtuneApi.dll’ does not exist
LogWindows: Failed to load ‘VtuneApi32e.dll’ (GetLastError=126)
LogWindows: File ‘VtuneApi32e.dll’ does not exist
LogConsoleResponse: Display: Failed to find resolution value strings in scalability ini. Falling back to default.
LogInit: Display: Running engine for game: BullCowGame
LogPakFile: Registered encryption key ‘00000000000000000000000000000000’: 0 pak files mounted, 0 remain pending
LogPlatformFile: Not using cached read wrapper
LogTaskGraph: Started task graph with 5 named threads and 47 total threads with 3 sets of task threads.
LogStats: Stats thread started at 0.523553
LogD3D11RHI: Loaded GFSDK_Aftermath_Lib.x64.dll
LogICUInternationalization: ICU TimeZone Detection - Raw Offset: +10:00, Platform Override: ‘’
LogPluginManager: Mounting plugin Paper2D
LogPluginManager: Mounting plugin AISupport
LogPluginManager: Mounting plugin LightPropagationVolume
LogPluginManager: Mounting plugin ActorLayerUtilities
LogPluginManager: Mounting plugin AnimationSharing
LogPluginManager: Mounting plugin CLionSourceCodeAccess
LogPluginManager: Mounting plugin CodeLiteSourceCodeAccess
LogPluginManager: Mounting plugin GitSourceControl
LogPluginManager: Mounting plugin KDevelopSourceCodeAccess
LogPluginManager: Mounting plugin NullSourceCodeAccess
LogPluginManager: Mounting plugin PerforceSourceControl
LogPluginManager: Mounting plugin SubversionSourceControl
LogPluginManager: Mounting plugin UObjectPlugin
LogPluginManager: Mounting plugin VisualStudioCodeSourceCodeAccess
LogPluginManager: Mounting plugin VisualStudioSourceCodeAccess
LogPluginManager: Mounting plugin XCodeSourceCodeAccess
LogPluginManager: Mounting plugin AssetManagerEditor
LogPluginManager: Mounting plugin CryptoKeys
LogPluginManager: Mounting plugin DataValidation
LogPluginManager: Mounting plugin FacialAnimation
LogPluginManager: Mounting plugin GameplayTagsEditor
LogPluginManager: Mounting plugin MacGraphicsSwitching
LogPluginManager: Mounting plugin MaterialAnalyzer
LogPluginManager: Mounting plugin MobileLauncherProfileWizard
LogPluginManager: Mounting plugin PluginBrowser
LogPluginManager: Mounting plugin SpeedTreeImporter
LogPluginManager: Mounting plugin DatasmithContent
LogPluginManager: Mounting plugin VariantManagerContent
LogPluginManager: Mounting plugin AlembicImporter
LogPluginManager: Mounting plugin AppleImageUtils
LogPluginManager: Mounting plugin AppleVision
LogPluginManager: Mounting plugin BackChannel
LogPluginManager: Mounting plugin CharacterAI
LogPluginManager: Mounting plugin GeometryCache
LogPluginManager: Mounting plugin HTML5Networking
LogPluginManager: Mounting plugin ProxyLODPlugin
LogPluginManager: Mounting plugin SkeletalReduction
LogPluginManager: Mounting plugin MagicLeap
LogPluginManager: Mounting plugin MagicLeapMedia
LogPluginManager: Mounting plugin AndroidMedia
LogPluginManager: Mounting plugin AvfMedia
LogPluginManager: Mounting plugin ImgMedia
LogPluginManager: Mounting plugin LinearTimecode
LogPluginManager: Mounting plugin MediaCompositing
LogPluginManager: Mounting plugin MediaPlayerEditor
LogPluginManager: Mounting plugin WebMMedia
LogPluginManager: Mounting plugin WmfMedia
LogPluginManager: Mounting plugin TcpMessaging
LogPluginManager: Mounting plugin UdpMessaging
LogPluginManager: Mounting plugin ActorSequence
LogPluginManager: Mounting plugin LevelSequenceEditor
LogPluginManager: Mounting plugin MatineeToLevelSequence
LogPluginManager: Mounting plugin NetcodeUnitTest
LogPluginManager: Mounting plugin NUTUnrealEngine4
LogPluginManager: Mounting plugin OnlineSubsystemGooglePlay
LogPluginManager: Mounting plugin OnlineSubsystemIOS
LogPluginManager: Mounting plugin OnlineSubsystem
LogPluginManager: Mounting plugin OnlineSubsystemNull
LogPluginManager: Mounting plugin OnlineSubsystemUtils
LogPluginManager: Mounting plugin LauncherChunkInstaller
LogPluginManager: Mounting plugin AndroidDeviceProfileSelector
LogPluginManager: Mounting plugin AndroidMoviePlayer
LogPluginManager: Mounting plugin AndroidPermission
LogPluginManager: Mounting plugin AppleMoviePlayer
LogPluginManager: Mounting plugin ArchVisCharacter
LogPluginManager: Mounting plugin AudioCapture
LogPluginManager: Mounting plugin CableComponent
LogPluginManager: Mounting plugin CustomMeshComponent
LogPluginManager: Mounting plugin EditableMesh
LogPluginManager: Mounting plugin ExampleDeviceProfileSelector
LogPluginManager: Mounting plugin Firebase
LogPluginManager: Mounting plugin GoogleCloudMessaging
LogPluginManager: Mounting plugin IOSDeviceProfileSelector
LogPluginManager: Mounting plugin LinuxDeviceProfileSelector
LogPluginManager: Mounting plugin LocationServicesBPLibrary
LogPluginManager: Mounting plugin MobilePatchingUtils
LogPluginManager: Mounting plugin OculusVR
LogPluginManager: Mounting plugin PhysXVehicles
LogPluginManager: Mounting plugin ProceduralMeshComponent
LogPluginManager: Mounting plugin RuntimePhysXCooking
LogPluginManager: Mounting plugin SignificanceManager
LogPluginManager: Mounting plugin SteamVR
LogPluginManager: Mounting plugin WebMMoviePlayer
LogPluginManager: Mounting plugin WindowsMoviePlayer
LogInit: Warning: Incompatible or missing module: BullCowGame
Running C:/Program Files/Epic Games/UE_4.22/Engine/Binaries/DotNET/UnrealBuildTool.exe Development Win64 -Project=“C:/Users/erinc/Documents/Unreal Projects/BullCowGame-starter-kit/BullCowGame.uproject” -TargetType=Editor -Progress -NoHotReloadFromIDE
Creating makefile for BullCowGameEditor (no existing makefile)
@progress push 5%
Parsing headers for BullCowGameEditor
Running UnrealHeaderTool “C:\Users\erinc\Documents\Unreal Projects\BullCowGame-starter-kit\BullCowGame.uproject” “C:\Users\erinc\Documents\Unreal Projects\BullCowGame-starter-kit\Intermediate\Build\Win64\BullCowGameEditor\Development\BullCowGameEditor.uhtmanifest” -LogCmds=“loginit warning, logexit warning, logdatabase error” -Unattended -WarningsAsErrors -installed
Reflection code generated for BullCowGameEditor in 4.7180626 seconds
@progress pop
Using Visual Studio 2019 14.25.28610 toolchain (C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2019\Community\VC\Tools\MSVC\14.25.28610) and Windows 10.0.18362.0 SDK (C:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Kits\10).
Building 15 actions with 16 processes…
@progress ‘Compiling C++ source code…’ 0%
@progress ‘Compiling C++ source code…’ 7%
[1/15] Default.rc2
@progress ‘Compiling C++ source code…’ 13%
[2/15] ERROR: Unable to open C:\Users\erinc\Documents\Unreal Projects\BullCowGame-starter-kit\Intermediate\Build\Win64\BullCowGameEditor\Development\Engine\SharedPCH.Engine.h.txt.tmp for output
LogInit: Warning: Still incompatible or missing module: BullCowGame
LogExit: Preparing to exit.
LogModuleManager: Shutting down and abandoning module DesktopPlatform (40)
LogModuleManager: Shutting down and abandoning module AnimationModifiers (38)
LogModuleManager: Shutting down and abandoning module PropertyEditor (37)
LogModuleManager: Shutting down and abandoning module AudioEditor (34)
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)
LogModuleManager: Shutting down and abandoning module StreamingFile (8)
LogModuleManager: Shutting down and abandoning module SandboxFile (6)
LogModuleManager: Shutting down and abandoning module PakFile (4)
LogModuleManager: Shutting down and abandoning module RSA (3)
LogExit: Exiting.
Log file closed, 03/27/20 20:25:41

DanM · March 28, 2020, 9:41am

Could you try deleting the Binaries and Intermediate folder and trying again?

Erin_C · March 28, 2020, 11:06am

Hey Dan thank you for your reply! I tried that, but unfortunately it didn’t work Any other solutions I could possibly use?

DanM · March 28, 2020, 3:21pm

Is it the exact same error?

[2/15] ERROR: Unable to open C:\Users\erinc\Documents\Unreal Projects\BullCowGame-starter-kit\Intermediate\Build\Win64\BullCowGameEditor\Development\Engine\SharedPCH.Engine.h.txt.tmp for output

If so could you right click the Intermediate folder > Properties > Security and then show the permissions for the various groups?

Erin_C · March 29, 2020, 4:17am

Hi Dan,

It’s the same error. Here’s what I saw when I went to Intermediate > Properties > Security: Annotation 2020-03-29 151653

DanM · March 29, 2020, 8:11am

And the other groups’ permissions? Mainly interested in Admin

Erin_C · March 29, 2020, 12:10pm

For all 3 (System, the second option and Administrators) they all have the same permissions. They are all on ‘Allow’ except for “Special permissions” which has a tick in neither “Allow” or “Deny”.

DanM · March 31, 2020, 6:36am

Guess it’s not that then. Try extracting it to the root of your User directory, it might be the long path name.
e.g.

C:\Users\erinc\BullCowGame-starter-kit\…

Could also try re-extracting the zip and/or redownloading it.

Erin_C · March 30, 2020, 10:09am

It worked! Thank you, Dan! I do get this error message though. Is it anything to worry about?

DanM · March 30, 2020, 1:46pm

No, just save the level and it’ll create that file and you will no longer have that come up when you load the project.

system · March 31, 2020, 1:46pm

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