microsoft / microsoft/vscode-cmake-tools
Visual Studio ninja not found
- Dominant language
- TypeScript
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Description
### Brief Issue Summary
With Visual Studio 2022 and its CMake support installed, vscode-cmake-tools does find the `cmake.exe` that it installs. It does not, however, find Ninja. If vscode-cmake-tools is able to find Visual Studio's `cmake.exe`, it seems like it ought to be able to locate its `ninja.exe`, as well.
### CMake Tools Diagnostics
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### Debug Log
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### Additional Information
This simple project demonstrates the problem.
[vscode-cmake-tools-test.zip](https://github.com/user-attachments/files/18308490/vscode-cmake-tools-test.zip)
Contributor guide
Research direction
Start by reproducing the issue with the attached vscode-cmake-tools-test.zip using Visual Studio 2022 and its CMake support. Trace the Visual Studio discovery path that finds cmake.exe and determine why ninja.exe is not located; done means the same setup finds Visual Studio's Ninja executable.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- cmake, typescript
- Domain
- build-system
- Issue type
- Bug
- Difficulty
- 3/5
- Estimated time
- 1-2 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 45/100