CMakePresets.json and Ninja

[bradenmcd]

Is there a commonly deployed solution to the problem of CMake expecting to be run in a shell configured with vcvarsall.bat when configuring and building with the Ninja generator?

Visual Studio has some cleverness here that gets engaged with the architecture.strategy and toolset.strategy cues in CMakePresets.json; but these don't seem to do anything for VSCode. Is there some way to tell VSCode to run vcvarsall.bat before executing configure/build? Or do I just need to set environment in a configuration to ape what vcvarsall.bat would do?

From 50,000 feet, the problem I'm trying to solve is this: is it possible to have Visual Studio and VSCode share a configuration preset in CMakePresets.json, or are we just not there, yet?

[bobbrow]

This is supposed to work and it does for me in the projects I've tried. We do have code to initialize the MSVC environment when using Ninja with presets (similar to VS) but it sounds like you may have hit a case that didn't work. If you could open an issue and share your presets file and which versions of Visual Studio you have installed, we can start an investigation from that point.

[bradenmcd]

Thank you. I've opened #2516.