Esoteric Software

[brunogsa]

I have downloaded latest version od Spine and Unreal 4.27.
I created a new empty project on Unreal and I followed the Spine tutorial in order to integrate with Unreal for making an example.
However, when I do the steps 6 and 7 as described below, the Unreal try to compile these new source code and it crashes.

Steps:
6- Copy the contents of spine-runtimes/spine-ue4/Plugins/ to your project's Plugins/ folder.
7- Copy the folder spine-runtimes/spine-cpp/spine-cpp to your project's Plugins/SpinePlugin/Source/SpinePlugin/Public/ folder.

I found out the Tutoral has a mistake on step 7!!!!!!!
One should not copy "Public" folder. One should copy entire content of "include" and "src" folder, instead of copying folders.

[Mario]

Step 7 is correct. If you copy the folder as instructed, you'll end up with Plugins/SpinePlugin/Source/SpinePlugin/Public/spine-cpp/src and Plugins/SpinePlugin/Source/SpinePlugin/Public/spine-cpp/include.

[brunogsa]

Which is a mistake. If you open Unreal or MSVS Project, an error will be raise because it tries to find "spine/spine.h" and it is not found because it is under "include" folder.
Or you copy the content as I said or you add include folder in your path.
You are may opening "spine unreal project". I created a empty project from Unreal (not spine).
Unreal craches and MSVS raise an error if you do not fix.

[Mario]

But the SpinePlugin.build.cs file references exactly that include folder:
https://github.com/EsotericSoftware/spine-runtimes/blob/4.0/spine-ue4/Plugins/SpinePlugin/Source/SpinePlugin/SpinePlugin.Build.cs#L17

Did you modify the build.cs file in any way?

I've just updated our spine-ue4 example to UE 4.27. That works as intended.

I then created a new UE 4.27 C++ project, then followed the steps in the spine-ue4 documentation to integrate the spine-ue4 plugin into the project. I end up with this folder structure:

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This project also compiles without issues in Visual Studio 2019.

[brunogsa]

My SpinePlugin.build.cs file is equal to yours... It sounds strange...
It did not worked for me. Keep in mind if others users have the same issue.
Thank you for the detailed instructions!