Linux: Add support for snaps of CMake

I have just installed Ubuntu 19.10 and used the Software installer application to install Visual Studio Code and CMake 3.15. I cloned my repository from GitHub and whenever I try to call CMake configure in Visual Studio code I get an error message: Bad CMake executable /snap/bin/cmake. CMake seems to run fine in a terminal.

VS Code/CMake extension used to run just fine out-of-the-box in previous version of Ubuntu.

When I try to enter the path manually I get error messages like these:

[rollbar] Unhandled exception: Unhandled Promise rejection: configure TypeError: Cannot read property ‘on’ of undefined {} [rollbar] Unhandled exception: Error during CMake upgrade TypeError: Cannot read property ‘on’ of undefined {“version”:“3.13.2”,“linuxURL”:“https://github.com/Kitware/CMake/releases/download/v3.13.2/cmake-3.13.2-Linux-x86_64.sh",“windowsURL”:"https://github.com/Kitware/CMake/releases/download/v3.13.2/cmake-3.13.2-win64-x64.msi”}

Actually /snap/bin/cmake is not an executable but a link if I recall correctly.

[hheld]

It works when you use /snap/cmake/current/bin/cmake as CMake Path. All snap executables seem to be just symbolic links to /usr/bin/snap, and that seems to work fine when called from a terminal but apparently not from the CMake extension in VSCode …

[Zingam]

There are two entries related to CMake Path. Which one is the correct one:

Cmake: Cmake Path Name/path of the CMake executable to use cmake Cmake: Ctest Path Path to CTest executable. If null, will be inference from cmake.cmakePath (recommended to leave null) Cmake: Cmake Path The path to CMake generator executable

@hheld Setting /snap/cmake/current/bin/cmake did the job!

Thank you!

I also have the twxs’s extension (which I hope will be absorbed into CMake Tools) but I don’t think that it is causing that duplication.