Hi, I've just learned that CMake 3.11 solves the issue of selecting particular Visual Studio 2017 instance via CMAKE_GENERATOR_INSTANCE. This is good news and thank you for this improvement.
I, however, am not entirely clear what the docs [2] mean by "The CMAKE_GENERATOR_INSTANCE variable may be set as a cache entry containing the absolute path to a Visual Studio instance." Is this supposed to be set with one of installationPath values as by vswhere [3] C:\> vswhere -all -prerelease -property installationPath C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\Preview\Professional C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\Professional [1] https://gitlab.kitware.com/cmake/cmake/commit/9ffb35386fb923a5959eec482bfa131aa3feaa18 [2] https://cmake.org/cmake/help/v3.11/generator/Visual Studio 15 2017.html [3] https://github.com/Microsoft/vswhere Best regards, -- Mateusz Loskot, http://mateusz.loskot.net -- Powered by www.kitware.com Please keep messages on-topic and check the CMake FAQ at: http://www.cmake.org/Wiki/CMake_FAQ Kitware offers various services to support the CMake community. For more information on each offering, please visit: CMake Support: http://cmake.org/cmake/help/support.html CMake Consulting: http://cmake.org/cmake/help/consulting.html CMake Training Courses: http://cmake.org/cmake/help/training.html Visit other Kitware open-source projects at http://www.kitware.com/opensource/opensource.html Follow this link to subscribe/unsubscribe: https://cmake.org/mailman/listinfo/cmake
