"cl" is not recognized in the VSC Terminal (using powershell)

[ins]

I’m following the Unreal C++ course and I’ve got to video 7 (in section 1) where you have to type cl in the terminal to verify that the compiler works, but I’ve done this and all I got was an error. (being ran in powershell)

And yes, I did run VSC through the developer command prompt and installed the C++ extension and also checked “Game development with C++” and Unreal Engine installer and it still won’t work.

[DanM]

Could you show what you get in the developer command prompt typing “cl”?

[ins]

It shows me the same thing as when I’m typing it in VS Code

Quick edit: Just realized I typed “cl” in Powershell in VS Code instead of cmd. (it would still show it in cmd terminal however)

[DanM]

That looks like you don’t have C++ installed as the command prompt looks like it should (has the Visual Studio and copyright banner) but cl isn’t working which is the Visual C++ Compiler.

Could you show what you have installed in the Visual Studio Installer?

[ins]

This is what I have installed for the workloads in the Visual Studio Installer

[ins]

Apparently I found a solution, I had to run the Visual Studio Developer Command Prompt as an admin to get it to work. Thanks for you help though @DanM. (will update post if I encounter another error regarding this)