Also moves DotNETCommon/Metadata.cs to Shared/Metadata.cs
#jira none
#rb tim.smith
#ROBOMERGE-SOURCE: CL 17116964 in //UE5/Main/...
#ROBOMERGE-BOT: STARSHIP (Main -> Release-Engine-Test) (v855-17104924)
[CL 17116977 by jonathan adamczewski in ue5-release-engine-test branch]
Add a layer of caching to avoid running msbuild as much as possible.
#jira UE-109181
#rb ben.marsh
#ROBOMERGE-SOURCE: CL 17102399 in //UE5/Main/...
#ROBOMERGE-BOT: STARSHIP (Main -> Release-Engine-Test) (v853-17066230)
[CL 17102408 by jonathan adamczewski in ue5-release-engine-test branch]
RunUAT ListPlatformDetails -DDPISection=ShaderPlatform/DataDrivenPlatformInfo
This generates an html report for DataDrivenPlatformInfo.ini files showing the values that are set & unset for all of them for easy comparison.
#jira UECON-467
#rb dave.barrett
#ROBOMERGE-SOURCE: CL 17101900 in //UE5/Main/...
#ROBOMERGE-BOT: STARSHIP (Main -> Release-Engine-Test) (v853-17066230)
[CL 17101910 by david harvey in ue5-release-engine-test branch]
Attempts to identify invalid arguments & print help were insufficiently clever.
(UnrealBuildTool "-Target=UnrealEditor Win64 Development" would show help rather than build)
#jira none
#trivial
#ROBOMERGE-SOURCE: CL 17033269 in //UE5/Main/...
#ROBOMERGE-BOT: STARSHIP (Main -> Release-Engine-Test) (v846-17029325)
[CL 17035597 by jonathan adamczewski in ue5-release-engine-test branch]
Add a -Help option that prints descriptions of global options.
(Tool mode options are not available - support for those may be added in a future CL)
Example output:
Global options:
-Help : Display this help.
-Verbose : Increase output verbosity
-VeryVerbose : Increase output verbosity more
-Log : Specify a log file location instead of the default Engine/Programs/UnrealBuildTool/Log.txt
-Timestamps : Include timestamps in the log
-FromMsBuild : Format messages for msbuild
-Progress : Write progress messages in a format that can be parsed by other programs
-NoMutex : Allow more than one instance of the program to run at once
-WaitMutex : Wait for another instance to finish and then start, rather than aborting immediately
-RemoteIni : Remote tool ini directory
-Mode= : Select tool mode. One of the following (default tool mode is "Build"):
AggregateParsedTimingInfo, Build, Clean, Deploy, Execute, GenerateClangDatabase, GenerateProjectFiles,
IOSPostBuildSync, JsonExport, ParseMsvcTimingInfo, PVSGather, QueryTargets, SetupPlatforms,
ValidatePlatforms, WriteDocumentation, WriteMetadata
-Clean : Clean build products. Equivalent to -Mode=Clean
-ProjectFiles : Generate project files based on IDE preference. Equivalent to -Mode=GenerateProjectFiles
-ProjectFileFormat= : Generate project files in specified format. May be used multiple times.
-Makefile : Generate Linux Makefile
-CMakefile : Generate project files for CMake
-QMakefile : Generate project files for QMake
-KDevelopfile : Generate project files for KDevelop
-CodeliteFiles : Generate project files for Codelite
-XCodeProjectFiles : Generate project files for XCode
-EddieProjectFiles : Generate project files for Eddie
-VSCode : Generate project files for Visual Studio Code
-VSMac : Generate project files for Visual Studio Mac
-CLion : Generate project files for CLion
-Rider : Generate project files for Rider
#jira none
#ROBOMERGE-SOURCE: CL 17018675 in //UE5/Main/...
#ROBOMERGE-BOT: STARSHIP (Main -> Release-Engine-Test) (v839-17012307)
[CL 17018680 by jonathan adamczewski in ue5-release-engine-test branch]
Setting CustomConfig=Foo in a Target.cs file will cause it to overlay config files from Project/Config/Custom/Foo on top of the defaults, allowing easy override of things like OSS settings to support multiple stores
In development, -CustomConfig=foo can be specified in both C++ and C# to enable the same functionality, which can be used to select between multiple different stage/deploy configurations in a build script
#rb josh.adams, ben.marsh
#ROBOMERGE-SOURCE: CL 17017130 in //UE5/Main/...
#ROBOMERGE-BOT: STARSHIP (Main -> Release-Engine-Test) (v839-17012307)
[CL 17017144 by ben zeigler in ue5-release-engine-test branch]
Use StringBuilders to significantly reduce runtime. More could be done, but this seems to address the slowest part.
#jira none
#trivial
#ROBOMERGE-SOURCE: CL 17015466 in //UE5/Main/...
#ROBOMERGE-BOT: STARSHIP (Main -> Release-Engine-Test) (v839-17012307)
[CL 17015468 by jonathan adamczewski in ue5-release-engine-test branch]
Batched function allows greater overlap when scanning the filesystem.
AutomationTool startup time is reduced by ~150ms on my machine
#jira none
#rb ben.marsh
#ROBOMERGE-SOURCE: CL 17000954 in //UE5/Main/...
#ROBOMERGE-BOT: STARSHIP (Main -> Release-Engine-Test) (v838-16927207)
[CL 17000959 by jonathan adamczewski in ue5-release-engine-test branch]
Each invocation of `xcodebuild -version` can take > 100ms. Caching the result reduces startup time of UnrealBuildTool and AutomationTool by 1-2 seconds.
#jira none
#ROBOMERGE-SOURCE: CL 16999582 in //UE5/Main/...
#ROBOMERGE-BOT: STARSHIP (Main -> Release-Engine-Test) (v838-16927207)
[CL 16999589 by jonathan adamczewski in ue5-release-engine-test branch]
