CMake presets don't work with VSCode

[dietmarkuehl]

It seems, the ${hostSystemName}` doesn't get expanded in the presets include when loading a project with VSCode:

[presetController] Included presets file .../execution26/cmake/CMake${hostSystemName}Presets.json cannot be found

As result, the CMake plugin is unhappy. I have found this issue which seems to have reported this problem but it was closed as fixed.

[ClausKlein]

A simple workaround would be in git bash on windows:

perl -p -i.bak -e 's/\${hostSystemName}/Windows/g;' CMakePresets.json

[maikel]

I had the same issue when setting up my environment yesterday. I modified the CMakePresets locally.

Do you know which piece of software is wrong? A vscode plugin?

[dietmarkuehl]

It seems cmake understands the variable OK. I have the impression the VS Code plug-in is interpreting the the files. But I don't know how these actually work.

[ClausKlein]

The MS tools does not support the newest preset version 9, see https://github.com/beman-project/execution26/blob/b8b689b7e08d3960d1a097cd8579ad4f17eff503/CMakePresets.json#L5
Only CMake v3.30 only supports it.