Building leaves empty folder

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Hey guys,

So I have my game up and running on the windows phone 8 store and I want to port it over to windows store. So I have the same project and I change the build settings to windows store app. I also have Visual Studios 2012 express for windows 8 installed. When I click the build and select a folder two small black boxes pop up as if it was building and then it beeps at me. I then check the folder that I was attempting to build to and nothing exist in the folder.

Anybody know why this is happening?

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Do you have the Windows 8 SDK installed?

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/hardware/hh852363.aspx

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I have the Windows 8.1 SDK installed, it won’t install the Windows 8 SDK.

Here is the link for windows 8.1 SDK

Don’t know if it matters but I am running windows 8.1 on my laptop

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Have looked in the log of the editor? Perhaps build failed for some reason, you should see something there telling you the reason.

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I have checked the log editor and it shows nothing. It’s honestly as if nothing is happening when I press the build button

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Are you using any 3rd Party Add-on’s … For one Collider Gen for instance? I notice if there are build warnings sometimes it wont build the Windows Store app’s.

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I am using NGUI but that’s it and NGUI works on windows phone 8 so I would be very surprised if it didn’t work for Windows Store

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Here is a video that shows what I am doing. Quality is still low but you can see the basic problems

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Just thought I would bump this as I still am having this problem and can’t figure it out.

Some more information for you guys, I am using a sony vaio pro 13 running windows 8.1 with the new i7 processor and the intel graphics card. Also I have to force Unity to run in DX11 mode or else when I boot up any graphics it crashes. Maybe that is wrecking something?

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Could you attach Editor.log?

Also maybe you’re building to path which have spaces in it, though this shouldn’t be a problem, you never know.

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Hi Tomas1856 thanks for replying,

I think this is the Editor.log you were talking about. I had to it into 3 separate files to upload it

1413592–74094–$Editor1.txt (12.5 KB) 1413592–74095–$Editor2.txt (11.1 KB) 1413592–74096–$Editor3.txt (18.3 KB)

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The error is right in the log file:

error CS0006: Metadata file 'C:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Kits\8.0\References\CommonConfiguration\Neutral\Windows.winmd' could not be found

You do not have the Windows 8 SDK installed. I know for certain that it can be installed side by side with Windows 8.1. Download it from http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/hardware/hh852363.aspx and install that, then try again and it should build for you.

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Hey Kyle,

I have installed the link you sent me up I am still having problems with the build, two balck boxes pop up quickly now instead of just one. It still has an empty folder. I have attached the editor logs again

1413686–74099–$Editor3.txt (16.8 KB)1413686–74098–$Editor2.txt (15.5 KB)1413686–74097–$Editor1.txt (17.4 KB)1413686–74100–$Editor4.txt (18.6 KB)1413686–74101–$Editor5.txt (4.97 KB)

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I’ve got good news and bad news for you.

The good news is that installing the Windows 8 SDK fixed it for you! Hooray!

The bad news is that now that it is able to try to build, you are getting proper errors.

Have you looked at the console before in Unity? Go to Window → Console, it will show errors that come up as you try to build. These errors will come up in your console. As well as any error while running / testing the game - you really cant live without the Console window.

Basically your problem is now that you are using classes (hashtable) that are unsupported with Windows 8 store. There are plenty of other posts in this forum about it which you can look through, or you can wait till Unity 4.3 comes out (soon) which I believe fixes the issue of Hashtables automagically for you.

-Kyle

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Oh I see, its the hashtables in iTween now that are breaking it.

Thank you very much for your Kyle!