VS2019 to compiler cmake report error

Question

when I create a cmake project with VS 2019 (16.11.5), output of cmake will report error: "Provided 'inheritEnvironments' doesn't provide the necessary environment variable needed to set the context for the configuration x64-Debug. .....".

Answer 1

Hi,

1.Make sure C++ workload is installed.

2.Compiling in the correct Visual Studio Command prompt could fix the detection.
Run the command line through the x64 native tool Command prompt for Visual Studio:

The command line is below the error message you provided. Such as:

Provided 'inheritEnvironments' doesn't provide the necessary environment variables needed to set the context for the configuration x64-Debug. You can work around this by adding the necessary environment variables such as INCLUDE, LIBPATH, PATH and others to an environment block in your CMakeSettings.json.

1> CMake generation started for default configuration: 'x64-Debug'.

Command line: "C:\windows\system32\cmd.exe" /c "%SYSTEMROOT%\System32\chcp.com 65001 >NUL && "C:\PROGRAM FILES\MICROSOFT VISUAL STUDIO\2022\PREVIEW\COMMON7\IDE\COMMONEXTENSIONS\MICROSOFT\CMAKE\CMake\bin\cmake.exe"  -G "Ninja"  -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE:STRING="Debug" -
......

In addition, this issue occurs in some versions of Visual Studio 2019. Please consider updating to the latest Visual Studio 2022.

Best regards,

Minxin Yu

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