Issues building Godot source C++ with SCons; Unknown 'vsproj' variable

[sweet-benji]

Godot Version

4.4

Question

Hi all,

I’m tyring to build Godot source with SCons, so I can create a project with C++. I’m new to using SCons, and am running into issues generating a visual studio solution file. When following the setup documentation, I tried running the following line in Powershell that was in the directory:

scons platform=windows vsproj=yes dev_build=yes

However, I get the following warning at the beginning of running scons:

WARNING: Unknown SCons variables were passed and will be ignored:
    vsproj=yes

Anyone else encounter this issue? I had Visual Studio 2022 installed on my machine before I installed SCons. I couldn’t find anything in the documentation that called this out, but Is there some extra configuration to SCons that I need for it to generate Visual Studio solutions?

Thanks in advance for your help.

[pennyloafers]

I dont see why it wouldnt work, but maybe the dev_build option is interfering, or causing it to spit out superfluous logs. You can try changing it to debug_symbols=yes

I think the dev_build is for someone changing the engine.

[sweet-benji]

Thanks for the suggestion! Unfortunately, it doesn’t seem to solve my issue - I’m still getting a warning about the unrecognized vsproj variable.

I took a closer look at the SConstruct file in the repo, the file doesn’t seem to specify what to do with a vsproj variable at all. Would handling for that variable be handled elsewhere, or is it something native to SCons?

[pennyloafers]

Are you sure you are checked out to your desired release? cus im on 4.4-stable tag and the option is in Sconstruct for me.

[pennyloafers]

Maybe a different question, is this godot_src or godot_c++ repo?

[sweet-benji]

I’m currently trying to build the godot-cpp repository - my understanding was that I needed that to work in Godot using C++.

Checking the Godot Repository, I see now that repo’s SConstruct file has a vsproj variable. Could I build that one and still be able to work in C++?

[pennyloafers]

I’m not sure, I’m not a visual studio expert. you could try to manually build a solution.

I also found this project you could probably bend to your needs.

I found this discussion but it may not bare any fruit.

[sweet-benji]

Thanks for the links! I think this resolved this issue.

I may have jumped the gun in downloading godot-cpp. That repo is specifically for GDExtensions API - not the engine itself. Cloning the Godot 4.4 repo and running my original scons command on that built the project with a visual studio solution, and all of the files seems to already be in C++.

In hindsight, I think I misread the documentation and jumped ahead.

Thanks again for your help!