I cant open Codex CLI

Resolved 💬 3 comments Opened Dec 15, 2025 by YOYOYOAKE Closed Dec 18, 2025
💡 Likely answer: A maintainer (github-actions[bot], contributor) responded on this thread — see the highlighted reply below.

What version of Codex is running?

None

What subscription do you have?

ChatGPT Plus

Which model were you using?

Noine

What platform is your computer?

Microsoft Windows NT 10.0.19044.0 x64

What issue are you seeing?

I can't open Codex CLI. When I enter codex in PowerShell, nothing is returned in my terminal. The same happens with codex --version.

<img width="771" height="187" alt="Image" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/c51d85d4-b115-46ac-a80d-0fd7193227f5" />

Meanwhile, Codex VSCode Extention is always loading:

<img width="1920" height="1030" alt="Image" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/faf8b05f-2a4b-4d14-8f1f-ba46029d6062" />

What steps can reproduce the bug?

I can't open Codex

What is the expected behavior?

I can't open Codex CLI. When I enter codex in PowerShell, nothing is returned in my terminal. The same happens with codex --version.

<img width="771" height="187" alt="Image" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/c51d85d4-b115-46ac-a80d-0fd7193227f5" />

Meanwhile, Codex VSCode Extention is always loading:

<img width="1920" height="1030" alt="Image" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/faf8b05f-2a4b-4d14-8f1f-ba46029d6062" />

Additional information

_No response_

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3 Comments

github-actions[bot] contributor · 8 months ago

Potential duplicates detected. Please review them and close your issue if it is a duplicate.

  • #7810

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Marve10s · 8 months ago

Did you try to not use pnpm? They suggest to use npm or Homebrew.
https://developers.openai.com/codex/cli/

YOYOYOAKE · 8 months ago

I solved this problem by installing the MSVC environment.