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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?

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    `Visual Studio 16 2019` but you need to use the -A option to specify the architecture (default is 64 bit). And you need CMake-3.14 https://cmake.org/cmake/help/v3.14/generator/Visual%20Studio%2016%202019.html – drescherjm Apr 16 '19 at 12:53

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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

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