On Reinstall: message - "Cannot register 'cmake.cmakePath'. This property is already registered."

[drankinatty]

Summary

This is more a cmake.cmakePath "is already set" issue and the extension not knowing it set it earlier before being uninstalled / reinstalled. The extension is working fine, the problem is just the annoying "This extension has reported 1 message" when you are looking at the extension in the extension list. More a curiosity and "small nit" that needs fixing rather than an "it doesn't work" issue. What needs to be done to get rid of the message?

Vscode Build Info

  Version: 1.97.2
  Release: 25045
  Commit: 7211e5a20b57d2e57d119144ac954542a24b547b
  Date: 2025-02-14T18:21:12.766Z
  Electron: 32.2.7
  ElectronBuildId: undefined
  Chromium: 128.0.6613.186
  Node.js: 20.18.1
  V8: 12.8.374.38-electron.0
  OS: Linux x64 6.13.1-1-default

Steps to Reproduce

This is the best of my recollection as to how this message appeared. This extension was installed, but was uninstalled before the vscode-cmake-tools extensions was installed. Finding this extension was the one providing coloration, this extensions was reinstalled. It has likely been this way for several months. I don't spend a lot of time looking at the extension status, but browsing the list, this caught my and I thought I would pass it along. Searching the issue, I found other references to it on the net, but no solution.

Screenshot

Here is a screenshot showing the extensions list and the mouseover dialog showing the message. Alt+mouseover was used to hold the dialog open and move of the 1 message link to display the pop-up you see to the right of the dialog.

[Achim-Haag]

Today as a VSCode novice, I stumbled over this message, so sorry for inconvenience and dumbness, but...

As I found #126 that seems to describe the same issue but for MS "CMake Tools", I ask myself:
May this result from both extensions, "CMake" by thxs and "CMake Tools" by MS, using the same settings parameter "cmake.cmakePath" ?

After 1,5 hours of investigation (VSCode novice), I found in https://github.com/microsoft/vscode-cmake-tools/blob/main/docs/cmake-settings.md :

cmake (causes CMake Tools to search the PATH environment variable, as well as some hard-coded locations.)
Supports substitution for workspaceRoot, workspaceFolder, workspaceRootFolderName, userHome, ${command:...} and ${env:...}.
Other substitutions result in an empty string.

So, regarding "CMake Tools", the default "cmake" for cmake.cmakePath should find cmake in my environment via Windows $PATH.

But regarding "CMake" by twxs, I find in https://github.com/twxs/vs.language.cmake no hint on a search but just the CMake binary path:
{
"cmake.cmakePath": "/path/to/cmake"
}

So I'm confused:

• shall I set cmake.cmakePath in settings.json to the explicit path of cmake ?
• do I need CMake (twxs) together with CMake Tools (MS) ?
• is it possible to change one of these extension to use another parameter name ?
• or do I simply not understand the issue correctly ?