After installing vcpkg into Visual Studio, linker gives error "'pwsh.exe' is not recognized..."

[OpenShooter]

Windows 11 Pro, Visual Studio 2022 17.6.5 After every native C++ build, I get a message from the linker 'pwsh.exe' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file.

This behavior began after I installed vcpkg and used it to get the cURL package. I am not using the cURL libraries for this project, however.

If it matters, I can access Visual Studio 2022 Developer PowerShell v17.6.5 from the VS menu Tools / Command Line / Developer Power Shell.

Here is how I installed vcpkg: I used VS Git / clone to obtain the vcpkg files from github. Then

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** Visual Studio 2022 Developer Command Prompt v17.6.5 ** Copyright (c) 2022 Microsoft Corporation

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C:\Miscellaneous_Libraries\vcpkg>bootstrap-vcpkg.bat Downloading https://github.com/microsoft/vcpkg-tool/releases/download/2024-02-07/vcpkg.exe -> C:\Miscellaneous_Libraries\vcpkg\vcpkg.exe... done. Validating signature... done.

vcpkg package management program version 2024-02-07-8a83681f921b10d86ae626fd833c253f4f8c355b

C:\Miscellaneous_Libraries\vcpkg>vcpkg integrate install Applied user-wide integration for this vcpkg root. CMake projects should use: "-DCMAKE_TOOLCHAIN_FILE=C:/Miscellaneous_Libraries/vcpkg/scripts/buildsystems/vcpkg.cmake"

All MSBuild C++ projects can now #include any installed libraries. Linking will be handled automatically. Installing new libraries will make them instantly available.

This is how I used vcpkg to get the cURL files: C:\Miscellaneous_Libraries\vcpkg>vcpkg install curl[tool]

[elcombs]

I had a similar issue using VS2022. I had to download and install PowerShell-7 from https://github.com/PowerShell/PowerShell/releases/download/v7.4.1/PowerShell-7.4.1-win-x64.msi

[JackBoosY]

You may need to download and install pwsh manually.

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