Couldn't find Zig Language Server (ZLS) executable at "/home/janne/.vscode-server/data/User/globalStorage/ziglang.vscode-zig/zls_install/zls"

[nurpax]

Zig Version

0.11.0-dev.1893+277015960

Zig Language Server Version

0.3.2

Steps to Reproduce

Start zig project with VScode by running code . in my zig project root.

This used to work for several weeks, I suddenly started getting this today:

Directory /home/janne/.vscode-server doesn't exist. I wonder if zls is looking into the wrong directory somehow?

I did use ZLS yesteray with Windows WSL, maybe VSCode WSL extension installation changed something that broke ZLS?

Expected Behavior

I'd expect ZLS to start without problems in VSCode.

Actual Behavior

Zig language extension in VSCode errors with:

Couldn't find Zig Language Server (ZLS) executable at "/home/janne/.vscode-server/data/User/globalStorage/ziglang.vscode-zig/zls_install/zls"

[nurpax]

Something had a added this line:

"zig.zls.path": "/home/janne/.vscode-server/data/User/globalStorage/ziglang.vscode-zig/zls_install/zls",

into my VSCode user settings json file. I deleted that line and restarted VSCode and it works now.

Maybe this got added when I started VSCode from within a WSL shell with code . that starts a VSCode remote session? I'm keeping this open in case it's useful information for the developers.

[sansseriff]

Yes it has something to do with remotes, maybe also wsl. I setup zls on a remote computer named artemis, and now that I'm doing local development again, it's still looking at the remote path.

[brdjns]

Has a fix been found for this? I got this problem on WSL as well but deleting the line and reinstalling the Zig language extension failed to fix it.

[sansseriff]

Until there's a real fix, I had to uninstall vscode, delete it's appdata folder, and reinstall.

For windows: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/47689536/how-to-completely-uninstall-vs-code-on-windows

Maybe you can get it working just by deleting some zls folder in %USER%\\.vscode\extensions. Not sure.

[laoshaw]

can not find zls in vim9 running on ubuntu 22.04 either:

zig.zls.path is correctly configured after installing coc-zls:

[Techatrix]

this is an issue with the vscode-zig extension which is being tracked here.