Since commit v3.4.0-rc1~5^2~1 (VS: Add support for selecting the Windows
10 SDK, 2015-09-30) the VS 2015 generator requires a Windows 10 SDK to
be available when CMAKE_SYSTEM_VERSION specifies Windows 10 (e.g. when
building on a Windows 10 host). Howewver, it is possible to install VS
2015 without any Windows 10 SDK. Instead of failing with an error
message about the lack of a Windows 10 SDK, simply tolerate this case
and use the default Windows 8.1 SDK. Since building for Windows Store
still requires the SDK, retain the diagnostic in that case.
a57caf7e VS: Fix Windows 10 SDK version selection (#15831)
ad594de8 cmSystemTools: Add VersionCompareEqual helper
c173e37f VS: Do not select a partial Windows 10 SDK folder (#15831)
In commit v3.4.0-rc1~5^2~1 (VS: Add support for selecting the Windows 10
SDK, 2015-09-30) we added Windows 10 SDK selection choosing the most
recent SDK that is not newer than the target version. This is backward
because it should be up to the application code to not use APIs newer
than the target version. It is up to the build system to provide a SDK
that has at least the APIs expected to be available for the target
version. Furthermore, since the default target version is the host
version of Windows, the old approach breaks when the only SDK available
is for a newer version of Windows.
Fix this by always selecting a Windows 10 SDK if one exists. Use the
SDK for the exact version if is available. Otherwise use the latest
version of the SDK available because that will have at least the APIs
expected for the target version.
The -T parameter to CMake may now be specified through cmake-gui via a
new text field in the first-time configure wizard (below the generator
chooser).
The generator factories specify whether or not they support toolsets.
This information is propagated to the Qt code and used to determine if
the selected generator should also display the optional Toolset widgets.
Teach the VS 2015 generator to produce a WindowsTargetPlatformVersion
value. Use the CMAKE_SYSTEM_VERSION to specify the version and if not
set choose a default based on available SDKs. Activate this behavior
when targeting Windows 10.
Co-Author: Brad King <brad.king@kitware.com>
Determine the Desktop SDK for Windows Phone and Windows Store from the
generator instead of the version of the targeted app. This allows to
build a Windows Phone 8.1 app on VS 2015 for example.
* Re-order VS generators from newest to oldest.
* Show how to specify a VS generator with a target platform
* Increase the option output indentation to avoid extra wrapping
with longer generator names.
Now that we know the year component of this VS version we
can add it to the generator name. For convenience, map
the name without the year to the name with the year.
Ask the global generator during generation instead of trying
to store it up front. Later the global generator may not know
the platform name when it is creating the local generator.
Remove the general infrastructure for these additional platform
definitions and hard-code the only two special cases that used
it. They are only for historical reasons so no new such cases
should be added.
Call the generator "Visual Studio 14" without any year because this
version of VS does not provide a year in the product name.
Copy cmGlobalVisualStudio12Generator to cmGlobalVisualStudio14Generator
and update version numbers accordingly. Add the VS14 enumeration value.
Teach the platform module Windows-MSVC to set MSVC14 and document the
variable. Teach module InstallRequiredSystemLibraries to look for the VS
14 runtime libraries.
Teach tests CheckCompilerRelatedVariables, VSExternalInclude, and
RunCMake.GeneratorToolset to treat VS 14 as they do VS 10, 11, and 12.
Co-Author: Pawel Stopinski <diokhan@go2.pl>
Brad King
Robert Dailey
Gilles Khouzam
Stephen Kelly