Not in scope Error - Windows 10, new install

[melas0nos]

I installed tidal cycles via choco first, then manually with cabal, first with stack, then with cabal by itself and no matter what when I save a file with .tidal and evaluate, in output is just says "variable not in scope" i.e. it's not loading tidal. I've tried playing with the ghci and BootTidal.hs paths to no avail. Also the audio file browser does not work, but I'll create a separate issue if needed after this.

Windows 10 - build 19044.1645
VSCode 1.66.2
tidalcycles version 1.7.10