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authorJulien Jemine <julien.jemine@gmail.com>2020-04-28 14:55:03 (GMT)
committerBrad King <brad.king@kitware.com>2020-04-29 11:35:57 (GMT)
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VS: Add option for per-target PlatformToolset
Add a `VS_PLATFORM_TOOLSET` target property to set `PlatformToolset` in the `.vcxproj` file for specific targets. Document that this is safe only when the named toolset uses the same underlying compiler as the primary toolset. Fixes: #17429
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-rw-r--r--Help/manual/cmake-properties.7.rst1
-rw-r--r--Help/prop_tgt/VS_PLATFORM_TOOLSET.rst10
-rw-r--r--Help/release/dev/vs-platform-toolset.rst6
3 files changed, 17 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Help/manual/cmake-properties.7.rst b/Help/manual/cmake-properties.7.rst
index 4966f86..9031e9c 100644
--- a/Help/manual/cmake-properties.7.rst
+++ b/Help/manual/cmake-properties.7.rst
@@ -372,6 +372,7 @@ Properties on Targets
/prop_tgt/VS_MOBILE_EXTENSIONS_VERSION
/prop_tgt/VS_NO_SOLUTION_DEPLOY
/prop_tgt/VS_PACKAGE_REFERENCES
+ /prop_tgt/VS_PLATFORM_TOOLSET
/prop_tgt/VS_PROJECT_IMPORT
/prop_tgt/VS_SCC_AUXPATH
/prop_tgt/VS_SCC_LOCALPATH
diff --git a/Help/prop_tgt/VS_PLATFORM_TOOLSET.rst b/Help/prop_tgt/VS_PLATFORM_TOOLSET.rst
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..f8f2e8e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Help/prop_tgt/VS_PLATFORM_TOOLSET.rst
@@ -0,0 +1,10 @@
+VS_PLATFORM_TOOLSET
+-------------------
+
+Overrides the platform toolset used to build a target.
+
+Only supported when the compiler used by the given toolset is the
+same as the compiler used to build the whole source tree.
+
+This is especially useful to create driver projects with the toolsets
+"WindowsUserModeDriver10.0" or "WindowsKernelModeDriver10.0".
diff --git a/Help/release/dev/vs-platform-toolset.rst b/Help/release/dev/vs-platform-toolset.rst
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..c5062c7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Help/release/dev/vs-platform-toolset.rst
@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
+vs-platform-toolset
+-------------------
+
+* The :prop_tgt:`VS_PLATFORM_TOOLSET` target property was added to tell
+ :ref:`Visual Studio Generators` for VS 2010 and above to override
+ the platform toolset.