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

[Robert Maynard]

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
<niels_dekker_address_until_2024 at xs4all.nl> 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?
>
>
> Kind regards, Niels
> --
> Niels Dekker
> Scientific programmer
> LKEB, Leiden University Medical Center
> --
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