Unreal Engine Binary Builder

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This is a small app designed to create binary build of Unreal Engine from GitHub source.

Watch the below video to get an idea.

How to use (Compiling Engine)

Step I

Download the latest release of Unreal Binary Builder.

Step II

Clone or Download UE4 source from github.

Step III

Open Unreal Binary Builder.
Click Browse and select root folder of your downloaded Engine (where Setup.bat and GenerateProjectFiles.bat exists).

Once the root folder is selected, click Start.
If Continue to Engine Build is enabled, then Unreal Binary Builder will automatically continue to compile the Engine with given options under Compile tab.

Step IV

Click Compile tab and set options for the Engine.

Troubleshoot

Bug with 4.25.4
There is a known issue with 4.25.4 where it fails to build with an error message: AutomationException: Attempt to add file to temp storage manifest that does not exist (<Path To Engine>\cpp.hint) This issue has been fixed in 4.26 but if you need to use 4.25.4 see this workaround by Bernard Rouhi: ryanjon2040#26 (comment)

Access Denied on some files?
On Windows, just change the ownership to Users then try again. To change ownership on Windows, follow these steps

Right click on the UE4 folder, choose Properties
Switch to Security tab
Click on Advanced
Near the top, click on Change User
A new dialog will open, in the text box at bottom, type in "Users", then click Check Names
OK till the end.