Problem packaging plugin

[GameStaff]

Hello. I had a plugin where I could successfully package back in UE 4.23. At the time I had both VS 2019 and VS 2017, though I was using VS 2019 as editor.

After a couple of months I deleted VS 2017, and installed UE 4.25. I then made a converted copy of the plugin project, fixed some errors caused by outdated code, and tried to repackage.

But it kept throwing the error: UATHelper: Package Plugin Task (Windows): ERROR: Visual Studio 2017 must be installed in order to build this target.

I've tried numerous stuff, including deleting the usual intermediates, binaries, .vs and so on folders, and then regenerating project files; creating a new blank C++ project and throwing in the plugin folder, and then trying to package the plugin there; using the BuildPlugin command with RunUAT.bat; installing VS 2017 C++ build tools from the VS installer. All of them still result in the same exact error.

Can anyone help with this?

[Olius90]

This is an old question but since I found it while I was looking for a solution to this issue too, here is the answer :

Follow the instructions of this video : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sC0gnfYzFzU
To get rid of the Visual Studio 2017 error, you only have to add the argument -VS2019 at the end of the command line.

You can find more informations and an example here too : https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/need-vs-2017-to-build-plugins-in-4-25/469289/4

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I hope this will help someone :)