jaredwolff I do have make installed on my Mac; I have a /usr/local/bin/cmake which reports version 3.19.1. Likely a requirement for something else I develop with. When I do a which cmake in the terminal window created from nRF connect desktop toolchain manager, it reports: /opt//nordic/ncs/v1.5.0/toolchain/bin/cmake so I don’t think it is getting the /usr/local/bin/cmake that is installed on my Mac. A which on west and ninja also reports the same path under /opt/nordic/ncs/v1.5.0/toolchain/bin.
As for your second question - no, I’m not running any of this in an IDE, just at the shell prompt in the terminal window that is opened (with the correct environment setup) from the nRF connect desktop…
Kurt