cannot build the project

[zeinali-ali]

Steps to reproduce

I've Installed VS 2026 on Windows 11 with SDK 10.0.26100.0 and MSVC tools v143 (14.44-xx), and followed steps in docs but when I run configure.bat x64 -D TDESKTOP_API_ID=YOUR_API_ID -D TDESKTOP_API_HASH=YOUR_API_HASH in x64 Native Tools Command Prompt for VS I get this error:

Choosing Qt 5.
Warn about uninitialized values.
-- Building for: NMake Makefiles
Version: 6.7.8
CMake Error at CMakeLists.txt:19 (project):
  Generator

    NMake Makefiles

  does not support platform specification, but platform

    x64

  was specified.


CMake Error: CMAKE_C_COMPILER not set, after EnableLanguage
CMake Error: CMAKE_CXX_COMPILER not set, after EnableLanguage
-- Configuring incomplete, errors occurred!
FAILED

Expected behaviour

None

Actual behaviour

None

Operating system

Windows 11

Version of Telegram Desktop

v6.8.7

Installation source

Static binary from official website

Crash ID

No response

Logs

[zeinali-ali]

An old version of cmake path was in my system PATH env variable which caused to configure.bat not using VS cmake( the older version doesn't support Visual Studio 18 2026 Generator so it switched to use NMake instread of Visual Studio 18 2026.