Use IL2CPP when targeting Windows Desktop

[eco_bach]

Getting a few IL2CPP compile errors when targeting Windows Desktop.
Question can or should you use IL2CPP when targeting Windows desktop?

[Mauri]

What errors do you get?

You can use IL2CPP for Windows. Check out Unity - Manual: IL2CPP Overview for more information about it.

[eco_bach]

The gist of seems to be that il2cpp.exe doesn’t recognize that Visual Studio is installed (It is) WTF! Not sure what troubleshooting step to try next. is there possibly a Unity preference or something in Package manager I am missing?

stdout:
il2cpp.exe didn’t catch exception: System.InvalidOperationException: C++ code builder is unable to build C++ code. In order to build C++ code for Windows Desktop, you must have…

[Mauri]

If possible, please post the full error log. However, it sounds like you don’t have the required C++ tools installed for Visual Studio.

Could you please follow the steps from the following post and see?

what VS components need to be install to build IL2CPP for standard windows?

Make sure your Visual Studio installation contains components to build C++ projects. In order to find out whether it’s installed… Open Visual Studio Go to “File > New Project” Expand “Installed Other Languages” It should display “Visual C++” as shown in the image below. [3377627--264997--visual_studio_new_project.png]

If they are indeed missing, try the following:

At any time after installation, you can install workloads or components that you didn’t install initially. If you have Visual Studio open, go to Tools > Get Tools and Features… which opens the Visual Studio Installer. Or, open Visual Studio Installer from the Start menu. From there, you can choose the workloads or components that you wish to install. Then, choose Modify.

(Source: Install C and C++ support in Visual Studio | Microsoft Learn)

[andyz]

Yeah this is Unity requiring Visual studio C++ engine to build to il2cpp. Unity could make it more explicit (especially in the manual) about what is required.