How can I generate a Visual Studio 2012 project ta

Question

With Visual Studio 2012 Update 1 released, I am hoping to build a C++ project to support Windows XP. Is there a way to use CMake to generate a project that targets Windows XP? Basically CMake would need to generate a project file that uses Platform Toolset = Visual Studio 2012 - Windows XP (v110_xp).

Answer 1

I think you can just generate a Solution for Visual Studio 2010/2012. Open this solution, open the solution/project in visual Studio, open the properties and reconfigure the Platform toolset to v110_xp.

Then you should be fine. But I'm still searching for the solution how to setupo the command line to build v110_xp programs...

Answer 2

According to http://www.cmake.org/Bug/view.php?id=10722 the answer is no yes.

Update: The bug mentioned above has been resolved with the following comment:

Fixed in Version CMake 2.8.11

A new "generator toolset" feature has been added here:

http://cmake.org/gitweb?p=cmake.git;a=commitdiff;h=7dab9977 [^]

One may now run CMake from the command line with

-G "Visual Studio 10" -T "v90"

in order to build with a specific toolset. We've not yet added a first-class interface to cmake-gui for this, but one may add the cache entry "CMAKE_GENERATOR_TOOLSET" to contain the "-T" value before configuring.

You might also look at the comments made to the other answers.

Answer 3

I think the best way to address this problem is use CMake to build your project for Visual Studio 2010 and then open the project with Visual Studio 2012. When you do this the toolset used will be vs2010, which works for WinXP.

Answer 4

According to http://www.cmake.org/Bug/view.php?id=10722 the answer is now (soon) yes.

Fixed in Version CMake 2.8.11

A new "generator toolset" feature has been added here:

http://cmake.org/gitweb?p=cmake.git;a=commitdiff;h=7dab9977 [^]

One may now run CMake from the command line with

-G "Visual Studio 10" -T "v90"

in order to build with a specific toolset. We've not yet added a first-class interface to cmake-gui for this, but one may add the cache entry "CMAKE_GENERATOR_TOOLSET" to contain the "-T" value before configuring.