We’re excited to announce improved CMake and Ninja support in Visual Studio 15.3 Preview 2.\u00a0 In this preview, we have updated CMake from version 3.7.2 to version 3.8 and added improved support for the CMake Ninja generator.\u00a0 Additionally, this preview includes several fixes for community reported bugs.<\/p>\n
Please download the preview<\/a> and try out the latest CMake features.\u00a0 If you are just getting started with CMake, follow the link to\u00a0learn more about CMake support in Visual Studio<\/a>.\u00a0 We are looking forward to your feedback.<\/p>\n We are trying to keep the version of CMake that is included in Visual Studio fresh as possible so you can use the latest and greatest features in your projects.\u00a0 To achieve that goal, we have upgraded the internal version of CMake the Visual Studio uses from CMake 3.7.2 to CMake 3.8.<\/p>\n You can find the full lists of enhancements in the CMake 3.8 release notes<\/a> at cmake.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n In the last preview<\/a> we introduced support for the Ninja generator.\u00a0 Visual Studio now supports targeting 64-bit systems as well as 32-bit.\u00a0 The Ninja generator is now selected by default when you create a new CMakeSettings.json:<\/p>\n To update an existing CMakeSettings.json file to use Ninja to build a 64-bit binary, simply update the\u00a0the generator and referenceContexts. \u00a0Or if you haven’t heavily customized it you can just delete the existing file and let Visual Studio generate a new one for you. \u00a0It will default to the Ninja generator for all builds.<\/p>\n You gave us feedback and we listened.\u00a0 Visual Studio 2017 15.3 includes several improvements and addresses bugs reported by the community.\u00a0 The following issues have been fixed as of 2017 15.3 Preview 2:<\/p>\n To try out the latest and greatest CMake features and give us some early feedback, please download and install the latest\u00a0Visual Studio 2017 Preview<\/a>.\u00a0 As always, we welcome your feedback.\u00a0 Feel free to send any comments through e-mail at\u00a0cmake@microsoft.com<\/a>, through\u00a0Twitter @visualc<\/a>, or Facebook at\u00a0Microsoft Visual Cpp<\/a>.<\/p>\n If you encounter other problems with Visual Studio 2017 please let us know via\u00a0Report a Problem<\/a>, which is available in both the installer and the IDE itself. \u00a0For suggestions, let us know through\u00a0UserVoice<\/a>. We look forward to your feedback!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" We’re excited to announce improved CMake and Ninja support in Visual Studio 15.3 Preview 2.\u00a0 In this preview, we have updated CMake from version 3.7.2 to version 3.8 and added improved support for the CMake Ninja generator.\u00a0 Additionally, this preview includes several fixes for community reported bugs. Please download the preview and try out the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":326,"featured_media":35994,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[270,266],"tags":[8,140,252,233,308,6,309,268],"class_list":["post-16096","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-announcement","category-cmake","tag-announcement","tag-c","tag-cmake","tag-cross-platform","tag-existing-code","tag-ide","tag-import","tag-openfolder"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":" We’re excited to announce improved CMake and Ninja support in Visual Studio 15.3 Preview 2.\u00a0 In this preview, we have updated CMake from version 3.7.2 to version 3.8 and added improved support for the CMake Ninja generator.\u00a0 Additionally, this preview includes several fixes for community reported bugs. Please download the preview and try out the […]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/cppblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16096","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/cppblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/cppblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/cppblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/326"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/cppblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16096"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/cppblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16096\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/cppblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35994"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/cppblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/cppblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/cppblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}CMake Tools Upgraded to use CMake 3.8<\/h3>\n
Target 64-bit Windows with Ninja<\/h3>\n
\n{\n \/\/ See https:\/\/go.microsoft.com\/\/fwlink\/\/?linkid=834763 for more information about this file.\n "configurations": [\n {\n "name": "x86-Debug",\n "generator": "Ninja",\n "configurationType" : "Debug",\n "referenceContexts": [ "msvc_x86" ],\n "buildRoot": "${env.LOCALAPPDATA}\\\\CMakeBuild\\\\${workspaceHash}\\\\build\\\\${name}",\n "cmakeCommandArgs": "",\n "buildCommandArgs": "-v",\n "ctestCommandArgs": ""\n },\n {\n "name": "x86-Release",\n "generator": "Ninja",\n "configurationType" : "RelWithDebInfo",\n "referenceContexts": [ "msvc_x86" ],\n "buildRoot": "${env.LOCALAPPDATA}\\\\CMakeBuild\\\\${workspaceHash}\\\\build\\\\${name}",\n "cmakeCommandArgs": "",\n "buildCommandArgs": "-v",\n "ctestCommandArgs": ""\n },\n {\n "name": "x64-Debug",\n "generator": "Ninja",\n "configurationType" : "Debug",\n "referenceContexts": [ "msvc_x64" ],\n "buildRoot": "${env.LOCALAPPDATA}\\\\CMakeBuild\\\\${workspaceHash}\\\\build\\\\${name}",\n "cmakeCommandArgs": "",\n "buildCommandArgs": "-v",\n "ctestCommandArgs": ""\n },\n {\n "name": "x64-Release",\n "generator": "Ninja",\n "configurationType" : "RelWithDebInfo",\n "referenceContexts": [ "msvc_x64" ],\n "buildRoot": "${env.LOCALAPPDATA}\\\\CMakeBuild\\\\${workspaceHash}\\\\build\\\\${name}",\n "cmakeCommandArgs": "",\n "buildCommandArgs": "-v",\n "ctestCommandArgs": ""\n }\n ]\n}\n<\/pre>\nBugfixes and Improvements<\/h3>\n
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