[CMake] Visual Studio platform name ("Win32", "x64") back on CMake GUI window?

Niels Dekker niels_dekker_address_until_2024 at xs4all.nl
Wed May 22 12:38:26 EDT 2019


Thanks for your support, Robert! Here it is:

   #19290 "Visual Studio platform name Current Generator back on CMake 
GUI window?"
   https://gitlab.kitware.com/cmake/cmake/issues/19290

Kind regards, Niels

On 2019-05-22, Robert Maynard wrote:
> Can you submit this to our issue tracker please (
> https://gitlab.kitware.com/cmake/cmake/issues )
> 
> On Wed, May 22, 2019 at 9:44 AM Niels Dekker wrote:
>> 
>> Previous versions of CMake GUI (prior to CMake 3.14) always displayed
>> the name of the selected platform (typically "Win32" or "Win64") with
>> the current generator, for example:
>> 
>>    "Current Generator: Visual Studio 14 2015 Win64"
>> 
>> It was very convenient to have the platform name displayed on the main
>> window of the CMake GUI.
>> 
>> When a new Visual Studio project is generated "from scratch" by CMake
>> 3.14, the platform name is no longer displayed with the Current
>> Generator. As I just tested with CMake 3.14.4, generating for VS2017
>> x64.
>> 
>> Would it be possible to get the VS platform name back onto the CMake 
>> GUI
>> main window?

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Niels Dekker
Scientific programmer
LKEB, Leiden University Medical Center


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