Invalid metadata in the plugin's DLL about comms-sdk-unreal HOT 9 CLOSED

@msobo1 This will be much easier to fix post-build. Unreal's automated plugin builder creates a dummy HostProject to build the plugin in and that dummy HostProject does not have any copyright entries and to add them would require us to modify engine code.

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@adamallaf Please also verify if this is a "problem" on macOS and add the appropriate label if it is.

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Does not affect MacOS.

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I believe this information can be set in project settings -> project -> description

Set my project description like this:

and the built DLL contains data like:

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Also can be edited from a config ini file

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But those are project settings, not plugin settings. There is no project when packaging the plugin. More specifically, there is the HostProject project which is basically a dummy defined in the engine's automation tools.

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I managed to pass the data from DefaultGame.ini to the output DLL with this workaround, I created a dummy project and placed the plugin in it's Plugins directory so the project directory structure looks like this:

~/Documents/Unreal Projects/aproject
$ ls *
aproject.uproject

Config:
DefaultEditor.ini  DefaultEngine.ini  DefaultGame.ini  FilterPlugin.ini

Plugins:
dummy_plugin/

then I built it with UBT as follows:

& "C:\Program Files\Epic Games\UE_4.27\Engine\Binaries\DotNET\UnrealBuildTool.exe" UE4Editor Win64 Development `
-Project="C:\Users\johnn\Documents\Unreal Projects\aproject\aproject.uproject" `
-plugin="C:\Users\johnn\Documents\Unreal Projects\aproject\Plugins\dummy_plugin\dummy_plugin.uplugin" `
-iwyu -noubtmakefiles -nohotreload -log="C:\Users\johnn\UBT-UE4Editor-Win64-Development.txt"

I think there should be an easy way to do this, but I could not find anything in unreal engine's documentation.
Or we can still try to build it with CMake.

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I honestly don't know enough about this sort of stuff so could you please coordinate with @msobo1 on how it could be addressed?

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Closing as unnecessary. Will monitor situation if proven otherwise.

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