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Configure Visual Studio for Linux cross compilation

Epic have provided a prebuilt cross compilation toolchain for building Linux binaries from Windows. Follow the installation guide on the wiki:

Compiling For Linux

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Once you have the toolchain installed, verify that you have a LINUX_ROOT env var pointing to it. You can check this in git bash with the following command:

`env | grep LINUX_ROOT `

Copy the server executable

go to your project folder, then binaries, win 64, and find the file called «yourProjectNameServer.exe»
and right click it and copy it.

next go to your packaged game location. then WindowsNoEditor, then the name of your project, binaries, win64,
and paste in the server.exe like so.

Dedicated Server from a brand new project

Open up source unreal engine, select c and third person template, give it a suitable name and save location

Download the Unreal engine from source

You’ll need a source-built version of the engine in order to build using the server solution configurations in Visual Studio.

Im too lazy for all this just give me the files

i will provide the test project files soon i ran out of time

Create the server shortcut and setup log options

now take the server file and create a shortcut to it. then rename it to match whatever you called your map inside the project . in my case i called it test level so my shortcut will look like this

now right click this shortcut and go to properties

at the end of the target path simply add -log like so

and click ok

Dedicated Server from a blueprint only project

if your project was made with a none source or different engine version or was simply only BLUEPRINTS to begin with
you will not be able to make a dedicated server until you add some c code.

So simply go to add new, c class, an empty class will suffice, and you can delete it later.

Once you have a source directory, right click on the .uproject file and generate visual studio project files. This should create an .sln in the project directory that you can open in visual studio.

Hosting on a virtual server

log into your virtual server, open up the internet and download the game package. unzip it and then launch the server shortcut as normal.

Package your project to a distinct location

Thanks to Osman for pointing this out to me. In order to compress everything you’ll need to deploy and run a standalone binary, you should package your project somewhere outside of your project’s working directory. The resulting file structure will contain the essentials.

Open the editor and package your project for Linux. Choose a distinct destination for the build (eg, ~/Desktop/MyGameLinux/). Once this completes, you should see a client build for Linux in the destination you chose.

Setup source unreal engine

open up the previously extracted folder
and find a file called Setup.bat

double click this file and it will open up a console window and begin installing unreal dependencies

Target file instructions for engine version 4.15

// Copyright 1998-2022 Epic Games, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

using UnrealBuildTool;
using System.Collections.Generic;

[SupportedPlatforms(UnrealPlatformClass.Server)]
public class ShooterGameServerTarget : TargetRules      // Change this line of code as shown in the previous steps
{
 
    public ShooterGameServerTarget(TargetInfo Target)  // Change this line of code as shown in the previous steps

       {

     Type = TargetType.Server;

      bUsesSteam = false;

       }

        //
        // TargetRules interface.
        //
            public override void SetupBinaries
            (
             TargetInfo Target,
             ref List<UEBuildBinaryConfiguration> OutBuildBinaryConfigurations,
             ref List<string> OutExtraModuleNames
             )
               {
                OutExtraModuleNames.Add("ShooterGame");     // Change this line of code as shown in the previous steps
               }
  }

A Setup source unreal engine To use Visual studio 2022

If you are using visual studio 2022. Instead of clicking on the GenerateProjectFiles.bat as shown above. Open up a CMD prompt window.
Navigate to the folder where source built unreal files are by using the cd (change directory) command.
Once inside the correct directory you need to run the following command.
«GenerateProjectFiles.bat -2022»

Build a dedicated server binary for Linux

Open your project solution in Visual Studio, select the Development Server configuration (or whichever server configuration you’d like to use) and build for Linux. Make sure you’ve followed the previous guide and that your Server target is correctly setup.

Copy the Linux Server binary to the packaged project directory we created in step 2. You should put it next to the client binary. So when you look in:

~/Desktop/MyGameLinux/LinuxNoEditor/MyGame/Binaries/Linux

You should see:

MyGame

MyGameServer

Target file instructions for engine version 4.16

// Copyright 1998-2022 Epic Games, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

using UnrealBuildTool;
using System.Collections.Generic;

[SupportedPlatforms(UnrealPlatformClass.Server)]
public class ShooterGameServerTarget : TargetRules    // Change this line of code as shown previously
{
	public ShooterGameServerTarget(TargetInfo Target) : base(Target) // Change this line of code as shown previously
       {
              Type = TargetType.Server;
              ExtraModuleNames.Add("ShooterGame");   // Change this line of code as shown previously
       }
}

Enabling Physics

Not sure if this is still relevant in engine 4.14 but ive left it here just in case. from original wiki authors.

Switch Unreal engine versions & generate project files

next inside the project folder right click the uproject file and when the menu pops up select «switch unreal engine versions»

if when you right click on a uproject file you dont get a menu that looks like this

then follow this step below from the read me file.

One last thing. You’ll want to setup your Windows shell so that you can interact with .uproject files. Find the file named UnrealVersionSelector-Win64-Shippping.exe in the UnrealEngine/Engine/Binaries/Win64/ folder and run it. Now, you’ll be able to double-click .uproject files to load the project, or right click them to quickly update Visual Studio files.

This should now allow you to right click on the uproject file to bring up the menu.

when you click switch engine versions make sure that your source build version of the engine is selected in the drop down box and click ok.

this should automatically regenerate the visual studio solution project files . if it does not then it means your files are already up to date but just to be safe you can right click the uproject file again and click «generate visual studio project files»

Target file instructions for engine version 4.17

// Copyright 1998-2022 Epic Games, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

using UnrealBuildTool;
using System.Collections.Generic;

[SupportedPlatforms(UnrealPlatformClass.Server)]
public class ShooterGameServerTarget : TargetRules   // Change this line as shown previously
{
       public ShooterGameServerTarget(TargetInfo Target) : base(Target)  // Change this line as shown previously
       {
        Type = TargetType.Server;
        ExtraModuleNames.Add("ShooterGame");    // Change this line as shown previously
       }
}

Building the server

next open up the visual studio project solution and allow it to fully load until it says ready.

go up to the drop down box and in the menu this time select DEVELOPMENT EDITOR

then same as before go to the solution explorer and right click and click build

again depending on youre computer this can take a long time to complete.

once this is done go back to the menu and in the drop down box this time select DEVELOPMENT SERVER

then same as before go to the solution explorer and right click and click build

again depending on your computer this can take a long time to complete.

once the server is built if you go into your project folder again then click binaries, win64
and you should have the server files in there like this

Connect to your server and run the dedicated server binary

SSH into your machine:

ssh piinecone@123.456.78.91

You may need to append `-i ~/.ssh/<your private key>` again here.

Once connected, you’ll be in your home directory. `ls` and you should see your gzipped tarball. Unpack it:

tar -xzf mygame-linux-server.tar.gz

`cd` to your binary location:

cd MyGameLinux/LinuxNoEditor/MyGame/Binaries/Linux

Make your server binary executable:

chmod x MyGameServer

Run it!

./MyGameServer -log

Okay, now kill it with Ctrl C because we have to open up allow connections on UDP:7777.

Also, if you see this error:

Could not adjust number of file handles

Add this line to /etc/security/limits.conf:

Fixing the lighting swarm error

With source built unreal when you go to build the lighting it is common for the following error to occur and it took me forever to find the solution so i am including it here to save you guys the headache.

so what you do is in your solution explorer in visual studio scroll down until you see «unreal lightmass»

and again like before right click it and click build.

when it has finished close visual studio and now the swarm bug error should be fixed.

Play your game on your server

This is, after all, the whole point. Build a client executable (or just use the one you built in step 2). Run it, open the console (with “~”), and type:
open my.server.ip.address:7777

You should see a join in your server log, and your client pawn should spawn into whichever map the server is currently running.

Prepare the project for packaging

now open up your project again by clicking on the uproject file.

ok so the first thing we need to do is under the content folder is add two new folders .
one called maps, the other blueprints.

then we need to go down to where the third person example map is stored and move it into your newly created map folder like so.

rename this to test level or whatever you like. this will be the level that the player loads into the server on and plays the game .

as of engine versions 4.14 whenever you make a new map you must open the map and then click on build so that it generates the correct mapBuildDataRegistry Files for it. once this is done then click save all.

now we need to create 2 more additional maps. so go up to file, then new level and select the empty map level.
name this first level entry map, and the second level transition map. like so

again dont forget to build each time on the new map to make sure the data is saved correctly.

open up the entry level map and go up to blueprints and open the level blueprint

in this blueprint drag off from begin play and find the open level node. in the level name set the parameter to
127.0.0.1 this is your local ip address.

compile and save and close the blueprint.

finally open up the test level map and just click on the default character that is in the map and just delete him otherwise when you join the server you will end up with duplicated characters.

now we need to set the project settings up

so open up the project settings and then go to maps and modes.

set the editor startup map to entry

set the game default map to entry

set the transition map to transition

set the server default map to test level

like so

Dedicated Server on Steam

Now on it’s own page:

Issues

At some point of time (around Unreal Engine 4.4.x), Linux servers required glibc 2.14 , which made it unable to run on Debian-stable (back then Debian 7 ‘wheezy’). This was a temporary issue not experienced in previous versions, and it was fixed in later ones.

Setup packaging settings

go to file, packaging, packaging settings

in the packaging settings scroll down till you find the section list of maps to include in a packaged build . click on the sign to add 3 elements to the array. one for each map you have in the project.
then browse to your map folder and add each of your 3 maps to the array like so

now close the settings and package the project.

Section 1 building a dedicated server in unreal engine 4

Building a standalone dedicated server wasn’t an easy thing to do and i know a lot of people struggle with it so i decided to make this wiki guide to try and help people. I’m going to cover the steps I took to build a Windows executable of a dedicated server.

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