A modified version of colormake.pl to work with Unreal's build scripts (i.e. RunUAT and RunUBT)

unreal-colormake.pl

#!/usr/bin/perl
#
# colormake.pl 0.9.20140504
#
# Copyright: (C) 1999, 2012-2014, Bjarni R. Einarsson <bre@klaki.net>
#                                 http://bre.klaki.net/
#
#   This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
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#
#   This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
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#   MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
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#
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#   along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
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#

# Some useful color codes, see end of file for more.
#
$col_black =        "\033[30m";
$col_red =          "\033[31m";
$col_green =        "\033[32m";
$col_yellow =       "\033[33m";
$col_blue =         "\033[34m";
$col_magenta =      "\033[35m";
$col_cyan =         "\033[36m";
$col_ltgray =       "\033[37m";
$col_drkgray =      "\033[1;30m";

$col_norm =         "\033[00m";
$col_background =   "\033[07m";
$col_brighten =     "\033[01m";
$col_underline =    "\033[04m";
$col_blink =        "\033[05m";

# Customize colors here...
#
$col_default =      $col_ltgray;
$col_gcc =          $col_magenta . $col_brighten;
$col_make =         $col_cyan;
$col_ue =           $col_gcc;
$col_filename =     $col_blue;
$col_linenum =      $col_cyan;
$col_trace =        $col_yellow;
$col_warning =      $col_yellow;
$col_comment =      $col_drkgray;
$tag_error =        "";
$col_error =        $tag_error . $col_red . $col_brighten;
$col_success =      $col_green . $col_brighten;
$error_highlight =  $col_brighten;
$col_build_config = $col_cyan;

$SIG{INT} = \END;

# read in config files: system first, then user
for $file ("/usr/share/colormake/colormake.rc", "$ENV{HOME}/.colormakerc")
{
	unless (!-f $file or do $file)
	{
		warn "couldn't parse $file: $@" if $@;
	}
}

# Get size of terminal
#
$lines = shift @ARGV || 0;
$cols  = shift @ARGV || 0;
$cols -= 19;

$in = 'unknown';
$| = 1; # auto flush
$skip = 0;

while (<>)
{
	$orgline = $thisline = $_;

	# Remove multiple spaces
	$thisline =~ s/  \+/ /g;

	# skip lines
	$skip--;
	if ($skip < 0)
	{
		$skip = 0;
	}

	# Truncate lines.
	# I suppose this is bad, but it's better than what less does!
	if ($cols >= 0)
	{
	    $thisline =~ s/^(.{$cols}).....*(.{15})$/$1 .. $2/;
	}

	# remove the "Dist/HostProject/Plugins/<Plugin>" that is created in the BuildPlugin command
	$thisline =~ s|Dist[/\\]HostProject[/\\]Plugins[/\\][a-zA-Z\_\-]+[/\\]||g;

	# make[1]: Entering directory `/blah/blah/blah'
	if ($thisline =~ s/^((p|g)?make\[)/$col_make$1/x)
	{
		$in = 'make';
	}
	elsif ($thisline =~ s/^(\s*(libtool:\s*)?((compile|link):\s*)?(([[:ascii:]]+-)?g?(cc|\+\+)|(g|c)\+\+|clang|CC|CXX).*)$/$col_gcc$1$col_norm/)
	{
		$in = 'gcc';

		if ($thisline =~ /\W-MF\W/)
		{
			$skip = 2;
		}
	}
	elsif ($thisline =~ s/^\#/$col_comment#$1/x)
	{
		$in = 'comment';
	}
  elsif ($thisline =~ s/(\[[0-9]+\/[0-9]+\] .*\.(rc2|h|cpp|cc|c|so|a|lib|dylib|target))/$col_ue$1$col_norm/)
  {
    $in = 'ue'; # unreal engine
  }
	elsif (!$skip && $thisline =~ /^(\s*\(|\[|a(r|wk)|c(p|d|h(mod|own))|do(ne)?|e(cho|lse)|f(ind|or)|i(f|nstall)|mv|perl|r(anlib|m(dir)?)|s(e(d|t)|trip)|tar)\s+/)
	{
		$in = $1;
	}
  elsif ($thisline =~ s/([0-9]+ error(s)? generated\.)/$col_error$1$col_norm/)
  {
    $in = 'unknown';
  }
  elsif ($thisline =~ s/(Total time in (Local|Parallel) executor: [0-9]+(\.[0-9]+)? seconds|BUILD SUCCESSFUL)/$col_success$1$col_norm/)
  {
    $in = 'unknown';
  }
  elsif ($thisline =~ s/(BUILD SUCCESSFUL)/$col_success$1$col_norm/)
  {
    $in = 'unknown';
  }
  elsif ($thisline =~ s/^(Running: .*UnrealBuildTool.exe\"? )(.*)( -Project.*)/$1$col_build_config$2$col_norm$3/)
  {
		# this colors the build configuration (i.e. UE4Editor Mac Development)
    $in = 'unknown';
  }
	elsif (($in eq 'gcc' || $in eq 'ue')
		&& $thisline !~ /^mv\W/
		)
	{
		# Do interesting things if make is compiling something.

		if (($thisline !~ /[,:]$/) && ($thisline !~ /warning/) && ($thisline !~ /note:/))
		{
			# error?
			if ($cols >= 0)
			{
				# Retruncate line, because we are about to insert "Error:".
				my $c = $cols - length($tag_error);
				$thisline = $orgline;
			    $thisline =~ s/^(.{$c}).....*(.{15})$/$1 .. $2/;
			}
			$thisline =~ s/(\d+:\s+)/$1$col_default$col_error/;
			$thisline = $error_highlight . $thisline . $col_norm;
		}
    elsif (thisline =~ /note:/)
    {
      # note/info
			$thisline =~ s|(note:\s+)(.*)$|$1$col_comment$2|;
    }
		else
		{
			# warning
			$thisline =~ s|(warning:\s+)(.*)$|$1$col_warning$2|;
		}

		# In file included from main.cpp:38:
		# main.cpp: In function int main(...)':
		$thisline =~ s/(In f(unction|ile))/$col_trace$1/x;

		# /blah/blah/blah.cpp:123:
		$thisline =~ s|(\s)([A-Z])(:\\)|$1-DRIVE$2|g; # temporarily remove the D:\ for -DRIVED since to not confuse line numbers, for windows
		$thisline =~ s|^([^:]+)|$col_filename$1$col_default|;
		$thisline =~ s|:(\d+)([:,])|:$col_linenum$1$col_default$2|;
		$thisline =~ s|(\s)(-DRIVE)([A-Z])|$1$3:\\|g; # remove temporary place holders
	}

	if ($thisline !~ /^\s+/)
	{
		print $col_norm, $col_default;
	}
	print $thisline;
}

END
{
	print $col_norm;
}

# UNUSED:
#
#%colors = (
#    'black'     => "\033[30m",
#    'red'       => "\033[31m",
#    'green'     => "\033[32m",
#    'yellow'    => "\033[33m",
#    'blue'      => "\033[34m",
#    'magenta'   => "\033[35m",
#    'purple'    => "\033[35m",
#    'cyan'      => "\033[36m",
#    'white'     => "\033[37m",
#    'darkgray'  => "\033[30m");

This is a gist of a modified version of https://github.com/pagekite/Colormake @ v0.9.20140504 that adds in hooks for using Unreal Engine's build scripts for Bash environments (i.e. Mac/Linux). I made this to help identify warnings and errors in the build output when compiling C++ plugins that I compile and distribute on the Marketplace with the BuildPlugin command to RunUAT.sh.

This script works on Windows if you use MINGW (i.e. Git Bash).

A couple of key points:

• Modify the colors in lines 43-54
• Sample usage would be something like (this is running in the directory of the plugin itself, with this file in that directory):

/Users/Shared/Epic\ Games/UE_4.26/Engine/Build/BatchFiles/RunUAT.sh \
  BuildPlugin \
  -Plugin=$(pwd)/FileSDK.uplugin \
  -Package=$(pwd)/Dist \
  -TargetPlatforms=Mac \
  -Rocket \
  -VS2017 \
  | ./unreal-colormake.pl --short

The output generates something like this:

This isn't maintained or supported, but happy to update it with any suggestions.