| CMAKE_GENERATOR_PLATFORM |
| ------------------------ |
| |
| 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. |
| If the user specifies a platform name (e.g. via the :manual:`cmake(1)` ``-A`` |
| option) the value will be available in this variable. |
| |
| The value of this variable should never be modified by project code. |
| 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. |
| |
| Visual Studio Platform Selection |
| ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ |
| |
| On :ref:`Visual Studio Generators` the selected platform name |
| is provided in the :variable:`CMAKE_VS_PLATFORM_NAME` variable. |
