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Invalid command line switch for "cmd.exe" System.argumentException: Item has already been added. (PATH vs Path)

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Hello,

When building my package with Git Bash shell I receive the following error:

C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2019\Community\MSBuild\Microsoft\VC\v160\Microsoft.CppCommon.targets(238,5): error MSB6001: Invalid command line switch for "cmd.exe". System.ArgumentException: Item has already been added. Key in dictionary: 'Path'  Key being added: 'PATH' [C:\${snip}\build\ZERO_CHECK.vcxproj]

I think this issue is very closely related to this issue: https://github.com/dotnet/msbuild/issues/5726

The problem is not clear how to fix, though MSBUILD suggests that this is a “wontfix” and that I should work around the issue. But it’s not clear what to add to my cmake-js usage to work around this issue. It’s seems the workaround is required in cmake-js?

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Created 3 years ago
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gentuniancommented, Jun 3, 2021

Going through the code it looks like in master this was addressed as a specific workaround:

https://github.com/cmake-js/cmake-js/blob/e311b71564be3925f35f0861f85817a823d4cff0/lib/processHelpers.js#L12

If the sanitize in nodejs could be backported, probably that hardfix could be removed as well.

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gentuniancommented, Jun 3, 2021

I tracked the issue down to https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/35210 so if this could be backported to older versions of nodejs then this issue I think will disappear.