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Failed to activate protocol version: "CMAKE_HOME_DIRECTORY" is set but incompatible...

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Brief Issue Summary

[rollbar] Unhandled exception: Unhandled Promise rejection: configure [cmake-server] Failed to activate protocol version: "CMAKE_HOME_DIRECTORY" is set but incompatible with configured source directory value. {}

The CMake Project outline panel is empty.

Expected:

No error. The CMake Project outline panel is filled.

Apparent Behavior:

git clone https://github.com/facebook/rocksdb.git
code rocksdb

CMake Tools will then attempt to “configure” the project and fail with the aforementioned error in the “debug console”.

Platform and Versions

Operating System: Ubuntu 18.04 64bit
CMake Version: 3.10.2
VSCode Version: 1.25.1
CMake Tools Extension Version: 1.1.1
Compiler/Toolchain: gcc 7.3.0

Issue Analytics

State:
Created 5 years ago
Comments:8 (2 by maintainers)

Top GitHub Comments

2reactions

yaycommented, Aug 8, 2018

Removing the build directory and doing the Clean reconfigure works.

0reactions

vector-of-boolcommented, Sep 22, 2018

This will now display a useful error message and helpful action button when it occurs. Fix in 1.1.2

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