Setting up VC environment variables failed (WINDOWSSDKDIR) - bazel 4.0.0

[pabloVecchio]

Description of the problem / feature request:

Trying to follow : https://docs.bazel.build/versions/master/tutorial/java.html
can't build 'Bazel Tutorial: Build a Java Project' -> bazel build //:ProjectRunner

What operating system are you running Bazel on?

Windows 10 Pro - Version 1909

What's the output of bazel info release?

release 4.0.0

Have you found anything relevant by searching the web?

This seems to be a similar issue but the proposed solution didn't work
#8943

Any other information, logs, or outputs that you want to share?

C:\Users\Username\Desktop\Working\j2cl\samples\bazelExample\examples\java-tutorial>bazel build //:ProjectRunner
Starting local Bazel server and connecting to it...
INFO: Repository local_config_cc instantiated at:
/DEFAULT.WORKSPACE.SUFFIX:342:13: in
C:/users/Username/_bazel_Username/smr4z376/external/bazel_tools/tools/cpp/cc_configure.bzl:184:16: in cc_configure
Repository rule cc_autoconf defined at:
C:/users/Username/_bazel_Username/smr4z376/external/bazel_tools/tools/cpp/cc_configure.bzl:145:30: in
ERROR: An error occurred during the fetch of repository 'local_config_cc':
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:/users/Username/_bazel_Username/smr4z376/external/bazel_tools/tools/cpp/cc_configure.bzl", line 122, column 36, in cc_autoconf_impl
configure_windows_toolchain(repository_ctx)
File "C:/users/Username/_bazel_Username/smr4z376/external/bazel_tools/tools/cpp/windows_cc_configure.bzl", line 784, column 35, in configure_windows_toolchain
msvc_vars_x64 = _get_msvc_vars(repository_ctx, paths, "x64")
File "C:/users/Username/_bazel_Username/smr4z376/external/bazel_tools/tools/cpp/windows_cc_configure.bzl", line 632, column 32, in _get_msvc_vars
env = setup_vc_env_vars(repository_ctx, vc_path)
File "C:/users/Username/_bazel_Username/smr4z376/external/bazel_tools/tools/cpp/windows_cc_configure.bzl", line 387, column 24, in setup_vc_env_vars
_check_env_vars(env_map, cmd, expected = envvars)
File "C:/users/Username/_bazel_Username/smr4z376/external/bazel_tools/tools/cpp/windows_cc_configure.bzl", line 393, column 32, in _check_env_vars
auto_configure_fail(
File "C:/users/Username/_bazel_Username/smr4z376/external/bazel_tools/tools/cpp/lib_cc_configure.bzl", line 112, column 9, in auto_configure_fail
fail("\n%sAuto-Configuration Error:%s %s\n" % (red, no_color, msg))
Error in fail:
Auto-Configuration Error: Setting up VC environment variables failed, WINDOWSSDKDIR is not set by the following command: "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2019\Community\VC\Auxiliary\Build\VCVARSALL.BAT" amd64 -vcvars_ver=14.28.29910
ERROR: Error fetching repository: Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:/users/Username/_bazel_Username/smr4z376/external/bazel_tools/tools/cpp/cc_configure.bzl", line 122, column 36, in cc_autoconf_impl
configure_windows_toolchain(repository_ctx)
File "C:/users/Username/_bazel_Username/smr4z376/external/bazel_tools/tools/cpp/windows_cc_configure.bzl", line 784, column 35, in configure_windows_toolchain
msvc_vars_x64 = _get_msvc_vars(repository_ctx, paths, "x64")
File "C:/users/Username/_bazel_Username/smr4z376/external/bazel_tools/tools/cpp/windows_cc_configure.bzl", line 632, column 32, in _get_msvc_vars
env = setup_vc_env_vars(repository_ctx, vc_path)
File "C:/users/Username/_bazel_Username/smr4z376/external/bazel_tools/tools/cpp/windows_cc_configure.bzl", line 387, column 24, in setup_vc_env_vars
_check_env_vars(env_map, cmd, expected = envvars)
File "C:/users/Username/_bazel_Username/smr4z376/external/bazel_tools/tools/cpp/windows_cc_configure.bzl", line 393, column 32, in _check_env_vars
auto_configure_fail(
File "C:/users/Username/_bazel_Username/smr4z376/external/bazel_tools/tools/cpp/lib_cc_configure.bzl", line 112, column 9, in auto_configure_fail
fail("\n%sAuto-Configuration Error:%s %s\n" % (red, no_color, msg))
Error in fail:
Auto-Configuration Error: Setting up VC environment variables failed, WINDOWSSDKDIR is not set by the following command: "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2019\Community\VC\Auxiliary\Build\VCVARSALL.BAT" amd64 -vcvars_ver=14.28.29910
ERROR: C:/users/Username/desktop/working/j2cl/samples/bazelexample/examples/java-tutorial/BUILD:3:12: //:ProjectRunner depends on @local_config_cc//:cc-compiler-x64_windows in repository @local_config_cc which failed to fetch. no such package '@local_config_cc//':
Auto-Configuration Error: Setting up VC environment variables failed, WINDOWSSDKDIR is not set by the following command: "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2019\Community\VC\Auxiliary\Build\VCVARSALL.BAT" amd64 -vcvars_ver=14.28.29910
ERROR: Analysis of target '//:ProjectRunner' failed; build aborted: Analysis failed
INFO: Elapsed time: 29.432s
INFO: 0 processes.
FAILED: Build did NOT complete successfully (11 packages loaded, 18 targets configured)

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As the error says, WINDOWSSDKDIR is not being set. However PATH, LIB and INCLUDE are.

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Running 'vcvarsall.bat amd64' with 'set VSCMD_DEBUG=3
'vcvarsall.bat amd64' with 'set VSCMD_DEBUG=3'.txt
'

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Visual Studio Build Tools installed

Already tried uninstalling, restarting, installing Visual Studio Build Tools and Visual Studio. The same with Windows SDK

[comius]

The problem seems to be in Cc autoconfiguration, or am I missing something?

I checked if we could remove Cc toolchain from Java rules, but this doesn't seem possible, because Cc can be used to build Java launcher.

[garymm]

I fixed this by installing the Windows SDK from the visual studio installer.

[albertocavalcante]

I think it's very unlikely someone will incur into the same issue I am but it happens I have on my machine a cmdrc.cmd file to mimic a .bashrc / .zshrc.

It hooks into every cmd.exe process and for some reason vsdevcmd.bat``couldn't deal with it. Solution was to have all lines as @REM` for now.

Then I was able to sucessfully run:

"C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\BuildTools\VC\Auxiliary\Build\VCVARSALL.BAT" amd64  -vcvars_ver=14.40.33807