Build configuration: cannot execute an Qt's example in MS Studio Code

[ArantxaES]

Hi everybody,
How do you configure the Build (Qt + CMake) in your beloved IDE's (MSVC) Workspace?
This tutorial on the internet didn't help me, because I'm using an OS different from Windows OS.
So here are the hard facts:

• OS: Ubuntu 24.0.1 (brand-new!)
• Qt: Creator 6.7.3
• Compiler: gcc/g++ 13.2
• IDE: MS Visual Studio Code (from snap)
• Extensions installed in MVSC: ms-vscode.cpptools, twxs.cmake, ms-vscode.cmake-tools, theqtcompany.qt, theqtcompany.qt-cpp-pack and tonka3000.qtvsctools
• Qt's installation folder: home/Qt/
• Qt example's folder: home/Qt/Examples/Qt-6.7.3/widgets/widgets/calculator/

How I defined my workspace
I defined as Workspace the Qt's installation folder altogether with the Qt's example folder, just to be sure that the header and source files would be also considered.
MSVC automatically created a "blended configuration folder" called ".vscode". There are under "calculator" Folder, for example, two JSON-Files: "c_cpp_properties.json" and "tasks.json". Under "Qt" folder just one: "settings.json".

What happens when I open the calculator.cpp file
There is these notification:
Bad CMake executable: "". Check to make sure it is installed or the value of the "cmake.cmakePath" setting contains the correct path

How are the MSVC Settings*
At "MSVC Settings -> Extensions -> CMake Tools -> Cmake Path" is setted as "cmake".
In my Linux Terminal I got this information:

whereis cmake
cmake: /usr/share/cmake

And what's in inside:

/usr/share/cmake/bash-completion$ ls
bash-completion-config.cmake  bash-completion-config-version.cmake

But when I change it on "MSVC Settings -> Extensions -> CMake Tools -> Cmake Path"* I get the real-time notification:
Executing command: /usr/share/cmake --version
[proc] The command: /usr/share/cmake --version failed with error: Error: spawn /usr/share/cmake EACCES/ENOENT

Then I installed by snap the CMake, but that's totally confusing... shouldn't the MSVC's Extension for CMakeTools make it easier? My stand-alone Qt Creator worked, but I'm guessing that they used qmake instead of cmake.

So I left the field as: /snap/bin/cmake

But the notification is still the same! :(

[Christian Ehrlicher]

@ArantxaES said in Build configuration: cannot execute an Qt's example in MS Studio Code:

whereis cmake
cmake: /usr/share/cmake

I don't know what/why whereis is looking for a directory but you must point it to the cmake executable, most likely in /usr/bin/ (or you forgot to install it).

[ArantxaES]

Hallo Christian,
The error remains after some trials:
/snap/bin/cmake
/snap/bin/
/snap/bin

arantxa@ARANTXA-R2D2:~$ /snap/bin/cmake --version
cmake version 3.30.4

[ArantxaES]

I was able to resolve replacing "/snap/bin/cmake" for:
cmake.cmakePath = /snap/cmake/current/bin/cmake