Cannot produce Glossaries in Latex

Question

I'm havin trouble printing my glossary and acronym directory with the glossaries package. It produces an empty page where I call \makeglossaries. I suspect biber, babel or my build directory might be interfering with it.

My main.tex looks something like this:

\documentclass{report}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc} 
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc} 
\usepackage[english,ngerman]{babel}
\usepackage{biblatex}
\usepackage[xindy]{glossaries}

\setacronymstyle{long-short}
\shorthandoff{"}
\makeglossaries

\addbibresource{head/bibliography.bib}
\loadglsentries{head/glossary}

\begin{document}
    ...40 pages of actual content about \gls{acr:ipd} and 
    \gls{BIM} and even more \gls{acr:ipd}...
    \printglossaries
    \printbibliography
\end{document}

With glossary.tex in the directory head:

\newglossaryentry{BIM}{name={Building Information Modeling},description={3D and shit. \lipsum}}
\newacronym{acr:ipd}{IPD}{Integrated Project Delivery}

Packages that I'm pretty sure are irelevant are omitted for brevity.

I have configured TexStudio to run the following sequence:

pdflatex.exe -src -synctex=1 -interaction=nonstopmode -aux-directory=build main.tex
makeglossaries.exe -d build main
biber.exe --input_directory build --output_directory build main
pdflatex.exe -src -synctex=1 -interaction=nonstopmode -aux-directory=build main.tex
pdflatex.exe -src -synctex=1 -interaction=nonstopmode -aux-directory=build main.tex

The problem appears to be that makeglossaries doesn't actually do anything. All it logs is

makeglossaries version 4.41 (2018-07-23)
Changed to 'build'

No files are changed when I run makeglossaries manually. I have manually added the Perl directory to ENV; it is reachable from my working directory. I have tried swiching to xindy and back according to the documentation, but to no avail. I have switched the order of biber and makeglossaries. I deleted the build directory after every attempt.

What is going wrong?

Update: I have confirmed that makeglossaries does in fact do nothing. Running the MWE in a separate directory yielded the desired results and much more verbose console output from makeglossaries.

Answer 1

Turns out the makeglossaries script is the issue. It just didn't do anything. No idea why. Luckily, it isn't supposed to do much more than call Xindy or Makeindex. I solved the issue by bypassing it with a file called build.bat:

pdflatex.exe -src -synctex=1 -interaction=nonstopmode -aux-directory=build main.tex
xindy  -L german -C din5007-utf8 -I xindy -M "build\main" -t "build\main.glg" -o "build\main.gls" "build\main.glo"
biber.exe --input_directory build --output_directory build main
pdflatex.exe -src -synctex=1 -interaction=nonstopmode -aux-directory=build main.tex
pdflatex.exe -src -synctex=1 -interaction=nonstopmode -aux-directory=build main.tex

Because I like working with TexStudio, I have set the second line as the makeglossaries command in the configuration and continuing with my regular build sequence.