CMake
CMake must be used to generate projects for Visual Studio. A Windows installer can be downloaded from the CMake homepage at https://cmake.org , and installation takes up 70 MB . The minimum CMake version is currently 3.5.1. Choosing the latest version is always recommended (except the release candidates). Choosing older versions will mean that newer Visual Studio and Boost versions will not be supported. If you already have an older version of CMake installed, please check that it is recent enough to support your setup:
CMake Version |
Maximum Visual Studio
Version Supported
|
Maximum Boost
Version Supported
|
|---|---|---|
3.23.2-3.23.3* |
Visual Studio 17 2022 |
1.79.0 |
3.22.2-3.23.1 |
Visual Studio 17 2022 |
1.78.0 |
3.21.3-3.22.1 |
Visual Studio 17 2022 |
1.77.0 |
3.21.1-3.21.2 |
Visual Studio 17 2022 |
1.76.0 |
3.20.3-3.21.0 |
Visual Studio 16 2019 |
1.76.0 |
3.19.5-3.20.2 |
Visual Studio 16 2019 |
1.75.0 |
3.18.0-3.19.4 |
Visual Studio 16 2019 |
1.74.0 |
3.16.2-3.17.5 |
Visual Studio 16 2019 |
1.72.0 |
3.15.3-3.16.1 |
Visual Studio 16 2019 |
1.71.0 |
3.14.2-3.15.2 |
Visual Studio 16 2019 |
1.70.0 |
3.14.0-3.15.1 |
Visual Studio 15 2017 |
1.70.0 |
3.13.0-3.13.4 |
Visual Studio 15 2017 |
1.69.0 |
3.12.0-3.12.4 |
Visual Studio 15 2017 |
1.68.0 |
3.11.0-3.11.4 |
Visual Studio 15 2017 |
1.67.0 |
3.9.3-3.10.3 |
Visual Studio 15 2017 |
1.65.1 |
3.8.0-3.9.2 |
Visual Studio 15 2017 |
1.64.0 |
3.7.2 |
Visual Studio 15 2017 |
1.63.0 |
3.7.0-3.7.1 |
Visual Studio 15 2017 |
1.62.0 |
3.5.1-3.6.3 |
Visual Studio 14 2015 |
1.61.0 |
* Newest at time of writing.
Installation is straightforward, and we recommend that you install CMake to the system PATH. By installing to the system PATH, it will be possible to run CMake from a command line without specification of the entire path to the CMake executable:
CMake install, with addition to system-wide PATH environment.