changing visual studio cmake internal generator

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I download Visual Studio 2022 . Inside Visual studio folders , there is CMake folder . The CMake package is installed with Visual Studio 2022 . When I create a new CMake project in Visual Studio 2022 , The Generator is Ninja . It is the internal default generator of Visual Studio CMake . I would like to change Ninja internal default generator to Visual studio 2022 . So that the only internal generator by default is Visual Studio 2022 not Ninja . I am really stuck and cannot find a solution . Any help would be appreciated .

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Here are some thoughts:

  1. In my experience, if you build your program from the command line on Windows, from Developer PowerShell for VS22, without specifying any compiler|generator, it will default to Visual Studio’s generator.
  2. -G "Visual Studio 17 2022" for your configure step is a thing
  3. Use CMakePresets. Also, although this repo’s intent is to expose some C++20 Modules stuff, see what it does in its CMakePresets.json file - it explicitly specifies the generator.

I’d suggest option#3. That’s the neatest ever.

On a side note|to be honest, since I discovered CMakePresets, I barely use the IDE itself haha. Only Sublime Text and the command line. I just have to cmake --worfklow --preset <workflow_name> and voila haha. I’d need the IDE for the Debugging convenience, but since I usually have warnings as errors, sanitisers, linters, analysers, etc. enabled, once I finally get to build the program (someday haha), I already went through almost all potential flaws :smile:

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Unfortunately , Your reply did not answer my question namely how to change the INTERNAL default generator of CMake . When I open Visual Studio IDE and create a new CMake project , I got an error telling me that the compiler is not found . Changing the CMakeprests.json solves the problem. But when I create a new CMake project inside Visual Studio 2022 I got again the same error . Compiler not found . CMake is not able to recognize Visual Studio as the compiler . For CMake the generator/compiler is Ninja . So is there a way to change this default generator from Ninja to Visual Studio so that avoid this error each time I create a new CMake project inside Visual Studio 2022 NOT in command line

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Check the components installed with Visual Studio. They ship everything needed to get it to work.

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CMake defaults to the Visual Studio generator itself. This would seem to be some VS setting that defaults to using the Ninja generator.

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It’s default to ninja, actually.

Create a new empty cmake project, it’s easy to see that from the log
remove the line in CMakePresets.json, that has ““generator”: “Ninja”,” to reduce noise.

1> Command line: "C:\WINDOWS\system32\cmd.exe" /c "%SYSTEMROOT%\System32\chcp.com 65001 >NUL && "c:\program files\microsoft visual studio\2022\preview\common7\ide\commonextensions\microsoft\cmake\CMake\bin\cmake.exe" -G "Ninja"