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authorBrad King <brad.king@kitware.com>2017-03-13 14:07:13 (GMT)
committerBrad King <brad.king@kitware.com>2017-03-13 14:36:58 (GMT)
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Help: Document VS generator toolset specification syntax
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diff --git a/Help/generator/VS_TOOLSET_HOST_ARCH.txt b/Help/generator/VS_TOOLSET_HOST_ARCH.txt
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@@ -2,9 +2,5 @@ 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.
+64-bit host tools by adding a ``host=x64`` option to the toolset specification.
+See the :variable:`CMAKE_GENERATOR_TOOLSET` variable for details.