[CMake] How to have Visual Studio 15 2017 actually use a 64 bit toolchain.

[Volker Enderlein]

Hi Michael,

I use the CMake generator toolset option "-T host=x64" when generating 
the solutions to force the 64 bit compiler being used.

Cheers, Volker

Am 21.09.2018 um 16:13 schrieb Michael Jackson:
>
> The easy answer is to use “ninja” from a VS tools X64 Native command 
> prompt. For those that want to actually use Visual Studio 15 2017 is 
> there anything in CMake or an environment variable that can be set?
>
>
> The issue is that when I configure I select “Visual Studio 15 2017 
> Win64” BUT the actual tool chain that VS is using under the hood is a 
> 32 bit compiler. I have verified this through stack overflow and 
> looking at the task manager.
>
> https://stackoverflow.com/questions/46056263/use-the-64-bit-visual-c-toolset-in-visual-studio-2017
>
> https://stackoverflow.com/questions/19820718/how-to-make-visual-studio-use-the-native-amd64-toolchain/25626630#25626630
>
> Is there a CMake variable that I can set to tell Visual Studio to use 
> the X64 toolchain?
>
>
> Thanks
>
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