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authorBrad King <brad.king@kitware.com>2019-01-28 15:44:51 (GMT)
committerBrad King <brad.king@kitware.com>2019-01-28 16:22:50 (GMT)
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VS: Add support for explicit 32-bit toolset selection via host=x86
Generalize the ``host=x64`` option in `CMAKE_GENERATOR_TOOLSET` to also support ``host=x86``.
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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 Visual Studio
-chooses the 32-bit variant even on a 64-bit host. One may request use of the
-64-bit host tools by adding a ``host=x64`` option to the toolset specification.
+(independent of the architecture they target).
+|VS_TOOLSET_HOST_ARCH_DEFAULT|
+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 :variable:`CMAKE_GENERATOR_TOOLSET` variable for details.