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| author | Brad King <brad.king@kitware.com> | 2016-10-07 19:57:04 (GMT) |
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| committer | Brad King <brad.king@kitware.com> | 2016-10-14 13:22:26 (GMT) |
| commit | d079e71c290c3c55a2db5180953daf014a964c25 (patch) | |
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VS: Provide an option to use x64 host tools
Visual Studio provides toolchains that are themselves built for 32-bit
or 64-bit host architectures. By default it uses the 32-bit tools, but
it can be told to prefer the 64-bit tools on 64-bit hosts. Extend the
`CMAKE_GENERATOR_TOOLSET` specification to provide a way to request
use of the 64-bit host tools.
Closes: #15622
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diff --git a/Help/generator/VS_TOOLSET_HOST_ARCH.txt b/Help/generator/VS_TOOLSET_HOST_ARCH.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..58e9223 --- /dev/null +++ b/Help/generator/VS_TOOLSET_HOST_ARCH.txt @@ -0,0 +1,10 @@ +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 ``host=x64`` to the toolset specification: + +``host=x64`` + Select the 64-bit variant of the default toolset. +``<toolset>,host=x64`` + Select the 64-bit variant of the ``<toolset>`` toolset. |