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| author | Brad King <brad.king@kitware.com> | 2017-07-11 11:37:13 (GMT) |
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| committer | Kitware Robot <kwrobot@kitware.com> | 2017-07-11 11:37:42 (GMT) |
| commit | 970569a941a3259f5303a5090ed7bca7bb6e6d7e (patch) | |
| tree | 51992b7663d4ba195e80301adb56127b13b61c13 /Help | |
| parent | a49b235db9036d5ec8c8535d2074c136eeb13254 (diff) | |
| parent | 2644e4c9fcc747d750d6a522d2b4029b172902c3 (diff) | |
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Merge topic 'vs-2017-choose-via-environment'
2644e4c9 VS: Choose VS 2017 instance via environment variable
Acked-by: Kitware Robot <kwrobot@kitware.com>
Merge-request: !1030
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diff --git a/Help/generator/Visual Studio 15 2017.rst b/Help/generator/Visual Studio 15 2017.rst index a88f8bc..2ac0449 100644 --- a/Help/generator/Visual Studio 15 2017.rst +++ b/Help/generator/Visual Studio 15 2017.rst @@ -15,6 +15,18 @@ a target platform name optionally at the end of this generator name: ``Visual Studio 15 2017 ARM`` Specify target platform ``ARM``. +Instance Selection +^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ + +VS 2017 supports multiple installations on the same machine. +CMake queries the Visual Studio Installer to locate VS instances. +If more than one instance is installed we do not define which one +is chosen by default. If the ``VS150COMNTOOLS`` environment variable +is set and points to the ``Common7/Tools`` directory within one of +the instances, that instance will be used. The environment variable +must remain consistently set whenever CMake is re-run within a given +build tree. + Toolset Selection ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ |