Windows (non mingw): "the system cannot find the path specified: `picotool/build/rp2350_otp_contents.json`"

Start with CMakeLists.txt and the generate_otp_header.vcxproj custom-build failure shown in the Visual Studio output. Reproduce the configuration with the Visual Studio 17 2022 generator and inspect the rp2350_otp_contents.json generation step; done means the Windows build completes without the missing-path error.

For context (and I'm not sure this is right) but I was hoping to avoid having to constantly unplug and plug my pico when trying to run/flash rust programs on my pico w. I don't know much about windows C compilation or any of this.

But it seems like, from reading the doc of picotool reboot that this would make it easier to reboot the pico into a flashable state.

I am trying to build picotool. I am using the vcpkg LIBUSB and I should note I'm also compiling with

C:\Users\anand\src\embedded\picotool\build>cmake -G "Visual Studio 17 2022" -A x64 -DPICO_SDK_PATH=C:\Users\anand\src\embedded\pico-sdk ..

Since I was getting a bunch of errors trying to just do the following (as the readme states):

mkdir build
cd build
cmake -G "NMake Makefiles" ..
nmake

I got quite far into the build (I think) but I ran into the following failure which I am having trouble debugging

  Configuring rp2350.rom.h
  Configuring xip_ram_perms_elf.h
  Building Custom Rule C:/Users/anand/src/embedded/picotool/CMakeLists.txt
  Generating C:/Users/anand/src/embedded/picotool/build/rp2350_otp_contents.json
  The system cannot find the path specified.
C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Community\MSBuild\Microsoft\VC\v170\Microsoft.CppCommon.targets(254,5): e
rror MSB8066: Custom build for 'C:\Users\anand\src\embedded\picotool\build\CMakeFiles\6a64e9599d387ae51b1ed4000801235f\
rp2350_otp_contents.json.rule;C:\Users\anand\src\embedded\picotool\build\CMakeFiles\11b62aa6c3c80e9686a66e87350698ff\ge
nerate_otp_header.rule;C:\Users\anand\src\embedded\picotool\CMakeLists.txt' exited with code 3. [C:\Users\anand\src\emb
edded\picotool\build\generate_otp_header.vcxproj]

This seems related to the newly released rp2350, which I'm not using. Does anyone have any advice on how to resolve this issue?

Thanks!