# Best Practice for Ninja build Visual Studio?

**URL:** https://discourse.cmake.org/t/best-practice-for-ninja-build-visual-studio/4653
**Category:** Usage
**Tags:** os:windows, gen:ninja
**Created:** [December 13, 2021, 6:12pm UTC](https://discourse.cmake.org/t/best-practice-for-ninja-build-visual-studio/4653 "2021-12-13T18:12:31Z")
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### Author: ![Fab](https://discourse.cmake.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/f/51bf81/32.png) [@Fab](https://discourse.cmake.org/u/Fab)
#### Post date: [November 22, 2022, 3:54pm UTC](https://discourse.cmake.org/t/best-practice-for-ninja-build-visual-studio/4653/5 "2022-11-22T15:54:17Z")

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You should also have a maybe more convenient direct command prompt shortcut (search for a native tools shortcut in the start menu) that calls vcvars for you, in my case it calls:

`C:\Windows\System32\cmd.exe /k "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Professional\VC\Auxiliary\Build\vcvars64.bat"`

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