Visual Studio 14 2015 — CMake 3.17.2 Documentation

# Visual Studio 14 2015

Generates Visual Studio 14 (VS 2015) project files.

## Project Types

Only Visual C++ and C# projects may be generated. Other types of projects (JavaScript, Powershell, Python, etc.) are not supported.

## Platform Selection

The default target platform name (architecture) is `Win32`.

The `CMAKE_GENERATOR_PLATFORM` variable may be set, perhaps via the `cmake(1)` `-A` option, to specify a target platform name (architecture). For example:

- `cmake -G "Visual Studio 14 2015" -A Win32`
- `cmake -G "Visual Studio 14 2015" -A x64`
- `cmake -G "Visual Studio 14 2015" -A ARM`

For compatibility with CMake versions prior to 3.1, one may specify a target platform name optionally at the end of the generator name. This is supported only for:

`Visual Studio 14 2015 Win64`
  Specify target platform `x64`.
`Visual Studio 14 2015 ARM`
  Specify target platform `ARM`.

## Toolset Selection

The `v140` toolset that comes with Visual Studio 14 2015 is selected by default. The `CMAKE_GENERATOR_TOOLSET` option may be set, perhaps via the `cmake(1)` `-T` option, to specify another toolset.

For each toolset that comes with this version of Visual Studio, there are variants that are themselves compiled for 32-bit (`x86`) and 64-bit (`x64`) hosts (independent of the architecture they target). By default this generator uses the 32-bit variant even on a 64-bit host. One may explicitly request use of either the 32-bit or 64-bit host tools by adding either `host=x86` or `host=x64` to the toolset specification. See the `CMAKE_GENERATOR_TOOLSET` variable for details.