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| author | Brad King <brad.king@kitware.com> | 2016-09-30 15:50:46 (GMT) |
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| committer | Brad King <brad.king@kitware.com> | 2016-09-30 15:54:16 (GMT) |
| commit | 39c898a107269a488b9dcb72bf99c545ab35e54c (patch) | |
| tree | 0156cdc6d72016cf7e1f95551f8e71d8bdf23c58 /Help/manual/OPTIONS_BUILD.txt | |
| parent | 8491a539cf316f14abaf70d7be04f8929119e501 (diff) | |
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Help: Clarify that `cmake -A` option sets VS IDE target architecture
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diff --git a/Help/manual/OPTIONS_BUILD.txt b/Help/manual/OPTIONS_BUILD.txt index b428a74..fa0e4c1 100644 --- a/Help/manual/OPTIONS_BUILD.txt +++ b/Help/manual/OPTIONS_BUILD.txt @@ -66,10 +66,12 @@ Specify platform name if supported by generator. Some CMake generators support a platform name to be given to the - native build system to choose a compiler or SDK. This is supported only on - specific generators:: + native build system to choose a compiler or SDK. See the + :variable:`CMAKE_GENERATOR_PLATFORM` variable. + This is supported only on specific generators: - Visual Studio >= 8 + * For :ref:`Visual Studio Generators` with VS 2005 and above this + specifies the target architecture. See native build system documentation for allowed platform names. |