What's the cmake generator for Visual Studio 2019

Question

With Visual Studio 2017, I used the generator "Visual Studio 15 2017 Win64" for cmake. After updating to Visual Studio 2019, what's the new corresponding generator?

Solution

from your directory where the cmakelist.txt exists. here are steps:

1. mkdir build
2. cd build
3. depending upon the architecture you're using

    cmake -G "Visual Studio 16 2019" -A x64 ../"

other options are:

cmake -G "Visual Studio 16 2019" -A Win32
cmake -G "Visual Studio 16 2019" -A x64
cmake -G "Visual Studio 16 2019" -A ARM
cmake -G "Visual Studio 16 2019" -A ARM64

it will generate makefiles required and serves your purpose

furthermore, you could

devenv <nameof solutions file> /build <Debug/Release option> 

for building your project