General issue - When using --build-mode=none, Windows builds produce Extraction error: 'MsvcCompiler' object has no attribute 'clangpp' #20071
Description
Description of the issue
As suggested here :
#8689 (comment)
I am trying to start using --build-mode:none via codeQl CLI using the following commands :
macOS :
\opt\codeql\codeql database create --verbosity=progress+++ --overwrite --language=cpp --source-root=/my/workspace/root --build-mode=none --common-caches=/my/cache/folder /my/codeql-db/path
Windows :
Import-Module "C:\\BuildTools\\Common7\\Tools\\Microsoft.VisualStudio.DevShell.dll"
Enter-VsDevShell -VsInstallPath C:\\BuildTools -SkipAutomaticLocation -DevCmdArguments '-host_arch=amd64 -arch=amd64 -no_logo'
C:\codeql\2.22.2\codeql.exe database create --verbosity=progress+++ --overwrite --language=cpp --source-root=C:\my\workspace\root --build-mode=none --common-caches=C:\my\cache\folder C:\my\codeql-db\path
As you can see for Windows I enter into the DevShell, otherwise I got the error :
[build-stderr] Error: no suitable C++ compiler was found. Check your PATH variable.
Under macOS everything is working well.
(And indeed : the CodeQL step's time got reduced from the current 70 minutes to 17 minutes on the project I am testing this change with!)
However for Windows I am getting the following error on the CI :
Created skeleton CodeQL database at C:\jenkins\w\my-project-name\pr-378-x64-debugcodeql\codeql_db. This in-progress database is ready to be populated by an extractor.
Running build command: []
Running command in C:\jenkins\w\my-project-name\pr-378-x64-debugcodeql: [C:\codeql\2.22.2\codeql\cpp\tools\autobuild.cmd]
[build-stderr] Extraction error: 'MsvcCompiler' object has no attribute 'clangpp'
[build-stdout] Generating compilation commands...
[build-stdout] Indexing folder C:\jenkins\w\my-project-name\pr-378-x64-debugcodeql, found 21 source files, 35 header files, 818 total files.
[build-stdout] Scanning system directories
Finalizing database at C:\jenkins\w\my-project-name\pr-378-x64-debugcodeql\codeql_db.
...
Loaded the following extractors: GitHub Actions, C/C++, C#, CSV, Go, HTML, Java/Kotlin, JavaScript/TypeScript, Java Properties Files, Python, Ruby, Rust, Swift, XML, YAML
CodeQL detected code written in C/C++ but could not process any of it using the 'none' build mode. Provide a manual build command using --command or check the logs. For more information,
review our troubleshooting guide at https://gh.io/troubleshooting-code-scanning/no-source-code-seen-during-build.
What could be the reason for this, and how could this be fixed?