- Introduction to the problem
I'm trying to create a MacOS app that prints a "Hello World" in C++ using Visual Studio 2022 (latest release 17.2.0) on Windows and the CMake template so I can connect remotely (using SSH) to the MacOS, I've been following this official Microsoft tutorial
- Problem ocurred
The problem is that when I get to the installation step of CMake in MacOS I can't get it to recognize the version of MacOS installed since when I open the project in Windows I get this following message in the console:
1> Copying files to the remote machine.
1> Starting copying files to remote machine.
1> Finished copying files (elapsed time 00h:00m:00s:650ms).
1> CMake generation started for configuration: 'macos-debug'.
1> Found cmake executable at /Users/maria/.vs/cmake/bin/cmake.
1> The remote system does not have CMake 3.8 or greater. An infobar to automatically deploy CMake to the remote system will be displayed if you are building on a supported architecture. See https://aka.ms/linuxcmakeconfig for more info.
It also shows the following message above:
Supported CMake version is not present on 'remote address'. Install latest CMake binaries from CMake.org? Yes No
And when I press "yes", it says that I actually have cmake installed on the remote MacOS:
1> Copying files to the remote machine.
1> Starting copying files to remote machine.
1> Finished copying files (elapsed time 00h:00m:00s:650ms).
1> CMake generation started for configuration: 'macos-debug'.
1> Found cmake executable at /Users/maria/.vs/cmake/bin/cmake.
1> The remote system does not have CMake 3.8 or greater. An infobar to automatically deploy CMake to the remote system will be displayed if you are building on a supported architecture. See https://aka.ms/linuxcmakeconfig for more info.
CMake binary deployment to the remote machine started. CMake generation will continue automatically after deployment finishes.
CMake binary deployment to the remote machine failed: Installation directory '/Users/maria/.vs/cmake' already exists.
- Solution attemps
I have tried to install CMake using brew (latest version available 3.23.1) and making sure that cmake was accessible directly from the MacOS terminal (included in PATH), I also tried doing the procedure following the official guide by installing the image .dmg by copying the "CMake.app" to "/Applications" and adding it to the path using the following command:
export PATH=/Applications/CMake.app/Contents/bin:$PATH
And I even tried to install older versions of CMake (like 3.8.0 or 3.8.1) but the same thing still happened. The expected result is the same as the Microsoft guide shown here:
1> Copying files to the remote machine.
1> Starting copying files to remote machine.
1> Finished copying files (elapsed time 00h:00m:00s:650ms).
1> CMake generation started for configuration: 'macos-debug'.
1> Found cmake executable at /Applications/CMake.app/Contents/bin/cmake.
1> /Applications/CMake.app/Contents/bin/cmake -G "Ninja" DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE_STRING="Debug" -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX
1> [CMake] -- Configuring done
1> [CMake] -- Generating done
1> [CMake] -- Build files have been written to: /Users/cti/.vs/CMakeProject90/out/build/macos-debug
1> Extracted CMake variables.
1> Extracted source files and headers.
1> Extracted code model.
1> Extracted includes paths.
1> CMake generation finished.
Does anyone know why this is happening or what could be the solution to this problem?
