Generating solution file for visual studio 2022 missing nmake build settings

[graeme.jahns]

Godot Version

4.2.2

Question

Hello, I’m trying to set up Visual Studio 2022 to be able to compile Godot 4.2.2 from source.
I cloned the Godot source, and followed the steps on this page to generate a solution file.

When I opened the solution file and tried to compile to the project, I got this error:
“The property ‘NMakeBuildCommandLine’ is not defined.”

When I opened the project settings and looked at the NMake properties, every entry I have is blank:

I have tried building Godot from the command line using Scons, and that worked, but I would like to be able to use Visual Studio. If anyone has any ideas, I would very much appreciate it.

Thanks

[Moke]

I also encountered this problem.After searching for a few days, I had to solve this problem myself

1. check the generate_vs_project function in the methods.py,i find that it should have generated a .props file

2. Next that is because vs_configuration is empty,then i checked SConstruct file and search for related information on internet.SCons doesn't work with VS 2019-pre3 · Issue #26296 · godotengine/godot · GitHub
   

   

3. I am using Visual studio preview so that Scons cant’t detect MSVC compiler,That’s why i was wrong,
   just add the -prerelease flag to the line in SCons/Tool/MSCommon/vc.py
   vswhere_cmd = [vswhere_path] + vswhere_version_args + [“-property”, “installationPath”, “-prerelease”]
   

   

then execute scons vsproj command ,it will generate target file, i can successfully compile godot