# Visual Studio 12 2013

Generates Visual Studio 12 (VS 2013) project files.

The `CMAKE_GENERATOR_PLATFORM` variable may be set to specify a target platform name (architecture).

For compatibility with CMake versions prior to 3.1, one may specify a target platform name optionally at the end of this generator name:

`Visual Studio 12 2013 Win64`
  Specify target platform `x64`.
`Visual Studio 12 2013 ARM`
  Specify target platform `ARM`.

For compatibility with CMake versions prior to 3.0, one may specify this generator using the name “Visual Studio 12” without the year component.

## Toolset Selection

The `v120` toolset that comes with Visual Studio 12 2013 is selected by default. The `CMAKE_GENERATOR_TOOLSET` option may be set, perhaps via the `cmake(1)` `-T` option, to specify another toolset.

For each toolset that comes with this version of Visual Studio, there are variants that are themselves compiled for 32-bit (x86) and 64-bit (x64) hosts (independent of the architecture they target). By default Visual Studio chooses the 32-bit variant even on a 64-bit host. One may request use of the 64-bit host tools by adding a `host=x64` option to the toolset specification. See the `CMAKE_GENERATOR_TOOLSET` variable for details.