[CMake] choose 32bit or 64bit in visual studio

Tyler Roscoe tyler at cryptio.net
Thu Oct 8 10:51:45 EDT 2009


On Thu, Oct 08, 2009 at 09:44:28AM -0500, j s wrote:
> So you are saying that if I have both the 32 bit compiler and 64 bit
> compiler installed on 64 bit windows, I will be able to create both 32 bit
> and 64 bit applications if I use the appropriate Visual Studio generator?

Yes.

> I am not exactly sure what your last statement about not being able to do
> the cross compile thing meant?

He just means that you don't get a single vcproj file with both win32
and x64 flavors available in a drop-down. Since you're building on a
64-bit Windows machine, building for 32-bit Windows is really
"cross-compiling".

tyler


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