"ms-vscode.cmake-tools" C/CPP configuration provider unable to find headers from nuget package

[fredemmott]

Brief Issue Summary

The CMake VS_PACKAGE_REFERENCES target property can be used to make C++ nuget packages (such as C++/WinRT, WIL, and the Windows App SDK) available to CMake projects.

This works fine if I use Visual Studio to open the CMake-produced vcxproj and friends, but VS Code is unable to locate these headers, and in turn, this makes intellisense not usable for files including headers from nuget packages.

CMake Tools Diagnostics

{
  "os": "win32",
  "vscodeVersion": "1.74.3",
  "cmtVersion": "1.13.43",
  "configurations": [
    {
      "folder": "c:\\Users\\Fred\\code\\openkneeboard",
      "cmakeVersion": "3.25.1",
      "configured": true,
      "generator": "Visual Studio 17 2022",
      "usesPresets": false,
      "compilers": {}
    }
  ],
  "cpptoolsIntegration": {
    "isReady": true,
    "hasCodeModel": true,
    "activeBuildType": "Debug",
    "buildTypesSeen": [
      "Debug",
      "Release",
      "MinSizeRel",
      "RelWithDebInfo"
    ],
    "requests": [
      "file:///c%3A/Users/Fred/code/openkneeboard/src/app/app-winui3/MainWindow.xaml.cpp"
    ],
    "responses": [
      {
        "uri": "file:///c%3A/Users/Fred/code/openkneeboard/src/app/app-winui3/MainWindow.xaml.cpp",
        "configuration": {
          "includePath": [
            "c:/users/fred/code/openkneeboard/src/app/app-winui3",
            "c:/users/fred/code/openkneeboard/build/third-party/cppwinrtnuget-prefix/src/cppwinrtnuget-build/include",
            "c:/users/fred/code/openkneeboard/src/app/app-common/gameslist/include",
            "c:/users/fred/code/openkneeboard/src/app/app-common/pagesource/include",
            "c:/users/fred/code/openkneeboard/src/app/app-common/tab/include",
            "c:/users/fred/code/openkneeboard/src/app/app-common/tabslist/include",
            "c:/users/fred/code/openkneeboard/src/app/app-common/toolbaritems/include",
            "c:/users/fred/code/openkneeboard/src/app/app-common/uilayers/include",
            "c:/users/fred/code/openkneeboard/src/app/app-common/userinput/include",
            "c:/users/fred/code/openkneeboard/src/app/app-common/include",
            "c:/users/fred/code/openkneeboard/build/third-party/jsonfetch-prefix/include",
            "c:/users/fred/code/openkneeboard/src/lib/include",
            "c:/users/fred/code/openkneeboard/build/src/lib/include",
            "c:/users/fred/code/openkneeboard/src/games/include",
            "c:/users/fred/code/openkneeboard/third-party/out_ptr/include",
            "c:/users/fred/code/openkneeboard/build/third-party/semverbuild-prefix/src/semverbuild/include"
          ],
          "defines": [
            "BUILD_CONFIG=\"Debug\"",
            "DEBUG",
            "DIRECTINPUT_VERSION=0x0800",
            "DISABLE_XAML_GENERATED_MAIN=1",
            "NOMINMAX=1",
            "OPENKNEEBOARD_BREAK=__debugbreak()",
            "OPENKNEEBOARD_JSON_SERIALIZE=1",
            "OPENKNEEBOARD_UNREACHABLE=__assume(false)",
            "UNICODE=1",
            "WIN32_LEAN_AND_MEAN=1",
            "_UNICODE=1"
          ],
          "compilerPath": "c:/program files/microsoft visual studio/2022/community/vc/tools/msvc/14.34.31933/bin/hostx64/x64/cl.exe",
          "compilerArgs": [],
          "compilerFragments": [
            "/DWIN32 /D_WINDOWS /EHsc /Zi /Ob0 /Od /RTC1 -MTd",
            "/EHsc",
            "/await:strict",
            "/FS",
            "/diagnostics:caret",
            "/Zc:__cplusplus",
            "/utf-8",
            "/WX",
            "/wd4996",
            "/wd4250",
            "/wd4297",
            "/FIC:/Users/Fred/code/openkneeboard/build/src/app/app-winui3/CMakeFiles/OpenKneeboard-App-WinUI3.dir/Debug/cmake_pch.hxx",
            "-std:c++20",
            "/YuC:/Users/Fred/code/openkneeboard/build/src/app/app-winui3/CMakeFiles/OpenKneeboard-App-WinUI3.dir/Debug/cmake_pch.hxx /FpC:/Users/Fred/code/openkneeboard/build/src/app/app-winui3/OpenKneeboard-App-WinUI3.dir/Debug/cmake_pch.pch /FIC:/Users/Fred/code/openkneeboard/build/src/app/app-winui3/CMakeFiles/OpenKneeboard-App-WinUI3.dir/Debug/cmake_pch.hxx"
          ]
        }
      }
    ],
    "partialMatches": [],
    "targetCount": 126,
    "executablesCount": 25,
    "librariesCount": 49,
    "targets": []
  },
  "settings": [
    {
      "communicationMode": "automatic",
      "useCMakePresets": "auto",
      "configureOnOpen": true
    }
  ]
}

Debug Log

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Additional Information

Example projects:

• https://github.com/fredemmott/cmake-cpp-winrt-winui3 - toy example
• https://github.com/OpenKneeboard/OpenKneeboard - real-world example. Most files work fine, but the .xaml.cpp files in src/app/app-winui3 in particular have this problem, e.g. src/app/app-winui3/MainWindow.xaml.cpp. One symptom of this is to type this-> then press ctrl+space. This works fine in Visual Studio, but with CMake Tools as the intellisense configuration provider, finds no results.

[fredemmott]

This wouldn't be technically correct, but a band-aid for most Microsoft-published packages would be to add ${HOME}/.nuget/packages/PACKAGE/VERSION/include/

[elahehrashedi]

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