Build Unreal Engine from Source Code - 5.5

You can try out the upcoming features first by building your own version of UE from source code. It's not hard at all.

You'll need a lot of space, an Epic Games account, a GitHub account and a copy of Visual Studio Community.

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01:05 Step 2
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05:20 Step 7
06:00 Done

Install Visual Studio Community.

To install the correct components for UE5 development, make sure the Game Development with C++ workload is checked. Under the Installation Details section on the right, also choose the following components:

C++ profiling tools
C++ AddressSanitizer (optional)
Windows 10 SDK (10.0.18362 or newer)
Unreal Engine Installer

Set your solution configuration to Development Editor and your solution platform to Win64, then right click the UE5 target and select Build. It may take anywhere between 10 and 40 minutes to finish compiling, depending on your system specs.

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[unknownuser]

Dont have hd space but wanted to thank you for the amazing tutorial, cant wait for 5.4 to be released. Great video!

[scottcourtney]

Extremely useful and concise. I've done this before but not recently, and this was just the quick refresher I needed.

[ryanisanart]

thank you - far and away the best build from source tutorial

[walterh]

By far the best tutorial on the matter

[cenwong]

Hello, nice video, but I want to know If the source code on github is updated, how should I synchronize it to my computer?

[zz]

Great video. Have you ever tried packaging a project? Why is there a situation with over 700 actions?

[demonitgames]

At default is it set as new released or we have to select what version to download of UE5

[fang_X_EDITS]

do you really need 300GB of hard disk space ?what if I chose unreal engine 4 and its variants since they are comparatively lightweight

[uNexAPB]

Can I take everything in the Binaries/Win64 folder and put it somewhere else? Would like to use the source build editor on a different machine but cba to rebuild everything xD

[clkdiv]

Is it possible to exclude specific platforms and unneeded modules frim Build?

[sebastiann]

Does it mean that I can use unreal engine 5 after building it without any connection to internet like it doesnt need any authorization? :)

[zerochain]

when you say i gonna take long time to build source code you wast kidding lol Build started at 2:04 AM and took 15:03:09, 677 hours needed to have my pc one when i sleeep lol

[deimovprojects]

Hello, thnk you for the tutorial.
Do you know why i get this error?

Error CS0006 Metadata file could not be


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