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| author | Brad King <brad.king@kitware.com> | 2017-03-13 13:56:45 (GMT) |
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| committer | Brad King <brad.king@kitware.com> | 2017-03-13 14:36:57 (GMT) |
| commit | c750b28220ebe3cacb087935871c7750758fc225 (patch) | |
| tree | e829b8760dc40bcd041aa997b77ce2f4d11c58d2 /Help/variable/CMAKE_GENERATOR_PLATFORM.rst | |
| parent | 10f444a5c6015a10ef0b520c32ad65097facba2b (diff) | |
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Help: Move generator platform support details to variable docs
Move the details about support for generator platform specification
to the `CMAKE_GENERATOR_PLATFORM` variable documentation. This is
a more suitable place because it is shared by all means to set this
variable, not just the `cmake -A` option.
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| -rw-r--r-- | Help/variable/CMAKE_GENERATOR_PLATFORM.rst | 9 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Help/variable/CMAKE_GENERATOR_PLATFORM.rst b/Help/variable/CMAKE_GENERATOR_PLATFORM.rst index a5c284a..161ef20 100644 --- a/Help/variable/CMAKE_GENERATOR_PLATFORM.rst +++ b/Help/variable/CMAKE_GENERATOR_PLATFORM.rst @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ CMAKE_GENERATOR_PLATFORM ------------------------ -Generator-specific target platform name specified by user. +Generator-specific target platform specification provided by user. Some CMake generators support a target platform name to be given to the native build system to choose a compiler toolchain. @@ -13,3 +13,10 @@ A toolchain file specified by the :variable:`CMAKE_TOOLCHAIN_FILE` variable may initialize ``CMAKE_GENERATOR_PLATFORM``. Once a given build tree has been initialized with a particular value for this variable, changing the value has undefined behavior. + +Platform specification is supported only on specific generators: + +* For :ref:`Visual Studio Generators` with VS 2005 and above this + specifies the target architecture. + +See native build system documentation for allowed platform names. |