Unable to Install Rive Plugin in Unreal Engine 5.6 / 5.4 — Project Fails to Compile

[Ravi-1303]

I’m unable to get the Rive plugin working in Unreal Engine 5.6 or 5.4.

I’ve tried all suggested troubleshooting steps:

• Creating a C++ project

• Ensuring engine source is installed and checked in the launcher

But every time I paste the plugin into the project’s Plugins folder and reopen the project, Unreal attempts to rebuild modules and then fails with:

rive_test could not be compiled. Try rebuilding from source manually.

Environment

• Unreal Engine: 5.4 & 5.6

• macOS

• Latest Rive plugin

Tried both C++ and Blueprint (with added C++ class)

[mustachebutter]

which rive-unreal version did you use? I tried 0.4.x with 5.5.4 and i have the same error. Switched back to the latest release of 0.3.x and I could open the Unreal project.

[Ravi-1303]

which rive-unreal version did you use? I tried 0.4.x with 5.5.4 and i have the same error. Switched back to the latest release of 0.3.x and I could open the Unreal project.

You tried it over a macOS or Windows? I am having trouble with installation on macOS.

[mustachebutter]

I tried it on Windows, but yea I can confirm that the latest 0.4.x rive plugins can't be compiled with Unreal Engine

[Tod-Rive]

The technical preview (0.4.x) versions of the plugin only support UE 5.7 right now. Previous versions of the plugin (<=0.3.x) are now unsupported.

[mustachebutter]

Hi Tod! Thanks for the confirmation and thank you for everything you and the team is doing for this project. I followed the video in the documentation and managed to get it working. Using Unreal 5.7 with the latest 0.4.x Rive

[Ravi-1303]

The technical preview (0.4.x) versions of the plugin only support UE 5.7 right now. Previous versions of the plugin (<=0.3.x) are now unsupported.

Thanks for the clarification. I’m trying to install and use the plugin on macOS, but I’m consistently running into compilation errors during the build process.

Additionally, I couldn’t find any documentation or video resources specifically covering Rive integration with Unreal on macOS, which makes it difficult to verify whether the setup steps differ from Windows.

Could you please share the expected setup or any macOS-specific guidance?