Visual Studio 14 2015¶
Generates Visual Studio 14 (VS 2015) project files.
Project Types¶
Only Visual C++ and C# projects may be generated. Other types of projects (JavaScript, Powershell, Python, etc.) are not supported.
Platform Selection¶
The default target platform name (architecture) is Win32.
The CMAKE_GENERATOR_PLATFORM variable may be set, perhaps
via the cmake(1) -A option, to specify a target platform
name (architecture). For example:
cmake -G "Visual Studio 14 2015" -A Win32cmake -G "Visual Studio 14 2015" -A x64cmake -G "Visual Studio 14 2015" -A ARM
For compatibility with CMake versions prior to 3.1, one may specify a target platform name optionally at the end of the generator name. This is supported only for:
Visual Studio 14 2015 Win64- Specify target platform
x64. Visual Studio 14 2015 ARM- Specify target platform
ARM.
Toolset Selection¶
The v140 toolset that comes with Visual Studio 14 2015 is selected by
default. The CMAKE_GENERATOR_TOOLSET option may be set, perhaps
via the cmake(1) -T option, to specify another toolset.
For each toolset that comes with this version of Visual Studio, there are
variants that are themselves compiled for 32-bit (x86) and
64-bit (x64) hosts (independent of the architecture they target).
By default this generator uses the 32-bit variant even on a 64-bit host.
One may explicitly request use of either the 32-bit or 64-bit host tools
by adding either host=x86 or host=x64 to the toolset specification.
See the CMAKE_GENERATOR_TOOLSET variable for details.