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- Visual Studio 16 2019
- ---------------------
- Generates Visual Studio 16 (VS 2019) project files.
- Project Types
- ^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Only Visual C++ and C# projects may be generated. Other types of
- projects (JavaScript, Powershell, Python, etc.) are not supported.
- Instance Selection
- ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- VS 2019 supports multiple installations on the same machine.
- The :variable:`CMAKE_GENERATOR_INSTANCE` variable may be set as a
- cache entry containing the absolute path to a Visual Studio instance.
- If the value is not specified explicitly by the user or a toolchain file,
- CMake queries the Visual Studio Installer to locate VS instances, chooses
- one, and sets the variable as a cache entry to hold the value persistently.
- When CMake first chooses an instance, if the ``VS160COMNTOOLS`` environment
- variable is set and points to the ``Common7/Tools`` directory within
- one of the instances, that instance will be used. Otherwise, if more
- than one instance is installed we do not define which one is chosen
- by default.
- Platform Selection
- ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- The default target platform name (architecture) is that of the host
- and is provided in the :variable:`CMAKE_VS_PLATFORM_NAME_DEFAULT` variable.
- The :variable:`CMAKE_GENERATOR_PLATFORM` variable may be set, perhaps
- via the :manual:`cmake(1)` ``-A`` option, to specify a target platform
- name (architecture). For example:
- * ``cmake -G "Visual Studio 16 2019" -A Win32``
- * ``cmake -G "Visual Studio 16 2019" -A x64``
- * ``cmake -G "Visual Studio 16 2019" -A ARM``
- * ``cmake -G "Visual Studio 16 2019" -A ARM64``
- Toolset Selection
- ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- The ``v142`` toolset that comes with Visual Studio 16 2019 is selected by
- default. The :variable:`CMAKE_GENERATOR_TOOLSET` option may be set, perhaps
- via the :manual:`cmake(1)` ``-T`` option, to specify another toolset.
- .. |VS_TOOLSET_HOST_ARCH_DEFAULT| replace::
- By default this generator uses the 64-bit variant on x64 hosts and
- the 32-bit variant otherwise.
- .. include:: VS_TOOLSET_HOST_ARCH.txt
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