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authorBrad King <brad.king@kitware.com>2019-04-22 11:38:20 (GMT)
committerKitware Robot <kwrobot@kitware.com>2019-04-22 11:38:33 (GMT)
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Merge topic 'vs-default-platform'
db02be85a0 VS: Provide the default platform name to project code Acked-by: Kitware Robot <kwrobot@kitware.com> Merge-request: !3246
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CMAKE_VS_PLATFORM_NAME
----------------------
-Visual Studio target platform name.
+Visual Studio target platform name used by the current generator.
VS 8 and above allow project files to specify a target platform.
CMake provides the name of the chosen platform in this variable.
See the :variable:`CMAKE_GENERATOR_PLATFORM` variable for details.
+
+See also the :variable:`CMAKE_VS_PLATFORM_NAME_DEFAULT` variable.
diff --git a/Help/variable/CMAKE_VS_PLATFORM_NAME_DEFAULT.rst b/Help/variable/CMAKE_VS_PLATFORM_NAME_DEFAULT.rst
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+CMAKE_VS_PLATFORM_NAME_DEFAULT
+------------------------------
+
+Default for the Visual Studio target platform name for the current generator
+without considering the value of the :variable:`CMAKE_GENERATOR_PLATFORM`
+variable. For :ref:`Visual Studio Generators` for VS 2017 and below this is
+always ``Win32``. For VS 2019 and above this is based on the host platform.
+
+See also the :variable:`CMAKE_VS_PLATFORM_NAME` variable.