Substrate Error: Protoc can't be accessed when running cargo build --release and --locked and is necesaary to compile node completely

Question

I'm having this Error Failed to invoke Protoc when I try to run the build command for the substrate node.

Error message on console

I have installed protoc from the official github repository and have added it to my system variables path.

System Variables path

I ran the command with both internet and without internet, same Error. I've also run cargo clean and rerun the build command, no improvement.

Cargo build --release I tried to build the node and get it running. I was expecting it to compile successfully but I got thread panicked at main Result::unwrap(). "failed to invoke protoc"