Process for building a UE4 plugin in UE 4.5

Install VS 2013

UE 4.5 requires Visual Studio 2013

Install Windows 8.1 SDK

• Microsoft: Old releases

Initial creation of the project

Put the project on GIT

Create the .gitignore for the UE4 project

• Ignore the VS files that can be regenerated

• Ignore the intermediate folder

• Ignore the binary folder

• Ignore the saved folder

• Add the source folder

Build the project in VS 2013

1>  [7/7] Link UE4Editor-UE4BlankPlugin.dll
1>     Creating library C:\Public\UE4BlankPlugin\Intermediate\Build\Win64\UE4BlankPluginEditor\Development\UE4Editor-UE4BlankPlugin.lib and object C:\Public\UE4BlankPlugin\Intermediate\Build\Win64\UE4BlankPluginEditor\Development\UE4Editor-UE4BlankPlugin.exp
1>  -------- End Detailed Actions Stats -----------------------------------------------------------
1>  Cumulative action seconds (12 processors): 0.00 building projects, 49.46 compiling, 0.00 creating app bundles, 0.00 generating debug info, 2.08 linking, 0.00 other
1>  UBT execution time: 90.34 seconds
========== Build: 1 succeeded, 0 failed, 0 up-to-date, 0 skipped ==========

Launch from VS 2013, Debug->Start Without Debugging (Control+F5)

The new project opens in the UE4 Editor

Close the UE4 Editor

Make a new Plugins subfolder

Copy the sample BlankPlugin into the project's plugin folder

Engine/Plugins/Developer/BlankPlugin

Rename folders, files and content from BlankPlugin to BlankPlugin2

Plugins/
Plugins/Developer
Plugins/Developer/BlankPlugin2
Plugins/Developer/BlankPlugin2/BlankPlugin2.uplugin
Plugins/Developer/BlankPlugin2/Resources
Plugins/Developer/BlankPlugin2/Resources/Icon128.png
Plugins/Developer/BlankPlugin2/Source
Plugins/Developer/BlankPlugin2/Source/BlankPlugin2
Plugins/Developer/BlankPlugin2/Source/BlankPlugin2/BlankPlugin2.Build.cs
Plugins/Developer/BlankPlugin2/Source/BlankPlugin2/Private
Plugins/Developer/BlankPlugin2/Source/BlankPlugin2/Private/BlankPlugin2.cpp
Plugins/Developer/BlankPlugin2/Source/BlankPlugin2/Private/BlankPlugin2PrivatePCH.h
Plugins/Developer/BlankPlugin2/Source/BlankPlugin2/Public
Plugins/Developer/BlankPlugin2/Source/BlankPlugin2/Public/IBlankPlugin2.h

Regenerate the VS project files by right-clicking the UE4BlankPlugin.uproject and select Generate Visual Studio project files in the context menu

VS will detect a change and select Reload All

Build and launch from VS

Select YES to build the plugin module

When the UE4 launches, the plugin will be loaded