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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. |