Cooking and Packaging errors

[QTM3]

Hi, I installed it and it works when I play in the Editor. I am able to use DistanceBetweenTwoPoints and that works. The problem is whenever I try to make a standalone package it fails. This happens both on Cook and Package in Shipping mode. I'm using UE 5.3.2. I get the following log

UATHelper: Packaging (Windows): LogInit: Display: Warning/Error Summary (Unique only)
UATHelper: Packaging (Windows): LogInit: Display: -----------------------------------
UATHelper: Packaging (Windows): LogInit: Display: LogTemp: Error: [VtkPlugin] VTK is currently NOT delayloaded on Windows, as this causes UE to crash (dlls are available directly at runtime).
UATHelper: Packaging (Windows): LogInit: Display: LogTemp: Warning: [VtkPlugin] Delay-loading VTK module...
UATHelper: Packaging (Windows): LogInit: Display: LogTemp: Warning: [VtkPlugin] 0 VTK libraries delay-loaded!
UATHelper: Packaging (Windows): LogInit: Display:
UATHelper: Packaging (Windows): LogInit: Display: Failure - 1 error(s), 2 warning(s)
UATHelper: Packaging (Windows): LogInit: Display:
UATHelper: Packaging (Windows): Execution of commandlet took: 12.46 seconds
UATHelper: Packaging (Windows): LogShaderCompilers: Display: ================================================
UATHelper: Packaging (Windows): LogShaderCompilers: Display: === FShaderJobCache stats ===
UATHelper: Packaging (Windows): LogShaderCompilers: Display: Total job queries 0, among them cache hits 0 (0.00%)
UATHelper: Packaging (Windows): LogShaderCompilers: Display: Tracking 0 distinct input hashes that result in 0 distinct outputs (0.00%)
UATHelper: Packaging (Windows): LogShaderCompilers: Display: RAM used: 240.00 B of 819.20 MiB budget. Usage: 0.00%
UATHelper: Packaging (Windows): LogShaderCompilers: Display: === Shader Compilation stats ===
UATHelper: Packaging (Windows): LogShaderCompilers: Display: Shaders Compiled: 0
UATHelper: Packaging (Windows): LogShaderCompilers: Display: Jobs assigned 0, completed 0 (0%)
UATHelper: Packaging (Windows): LogShaderCompilers: Display: Time at least one job was in flight (either pending or executed): 0.00 s
UATHelper: Packaging (Windows): LogShaderCompilers: Display: ================================================
UATHelper: Packaging (Windows): LogTemp: Error: [VtkPlugin] Not freeing dlls on Windows because dlls are not delay-loaded & this additionally generates a crash on shutdown (with debugger attached).
UATHelper: Packaging (Windows): Took 20.04s to run UnrealEditor-Cmd.exe, ExitCode=1
UATHelper: Packaging (Windows): Cook failed.
UATHelper: Packaging (Windows): (see C:\Users\Pawan\AppData\Roaming\Unreal Engine\AutomationTool\Logs\D+UE_5.3\Log.txt for full exception trace)
UATHelper: Packaging (Windows): AutomationTool executed for 0h 0m 40s
UATHelper: Packaging (Windows): AutomationTool exiting with ExitCode=25 (Error_UnknownCookFailure)
UATHelper: Packaging (Windows): BUILD FAILED
PackagingResults: Error: Unknown Cook Failure

I see the errors of delay-loading popping up from VTK-Library but is there any way to create a standalone package. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.

[QTM3]

I tried cooking with an empty project. Simply enabling the plugin gives above mentioned errors. Disabling it works for both cooking and packaging for all configurations. I cannot seem to create a standalone package with the plugin enabled. Any help would be appreciated in fixing this bug. Thanks in advance.

[brugr9]

HI @QTM3
As I can read in your post, UATHelper says: Packaging (Windows): LogTemp: Error: [VtkPlugin] Not freeing dlls on Windows because dlls are not delay-loaded & this additionally generates a crash on shutdown (with debugger attached).

Eventually dlls should be delay-loaded to get the packaging working?

[QTM3]

Hi @brugr9

Indeed it seems like delay-loading is needed for packaging to work for this project, but as stated on the project page

https://github.com/VRGroupRWTH/VTKPlugin

delay-loading of VTK dlls is not supported by this plugin. I tried different approaches but could not get it to work on UE 5.x. Eventually making a statically liked "ThirdParty Plugin" from scratch for UE version 4.23 seems to work (though I could not get it to work for 5.x either). Hope this helps.

[jfmilke]

Hey, I was the one who added that error message as I could not delay loading working on Windows. Things might have changed or you may find a solution by trial and error?
I think to remember that it was a VTK problem as there was a dependency problem of some DLLs, I'd investigate in that direction. Maybe also update the script to fetch the newest VTK version.

Have a look at the Build.cs file of the ThirdParty plugin where the error (more a warning actually) is generated to fiddle around.