Setting Default Generators

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Is there a way to set default generators for your project? I haven’t seen any such functionality but it would be hugely beneficial to be able to do this.
Example:
cmake (path to project dir)

Vs
cmake -G ‘Visual Studio 16 2019’ -A x64 (path to project dir)

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Have a look at the environment variable CMAKE_GENERATOR.

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Does that work if it’s set from within a CMakeLists.txt file? My understanding is that you’d have to generate a project, where that would then be set and regenerate the desired project. Is this true?

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You cannot set the generator from inside the project. The generator is chosen by the user, not the upstream developer. The most you could do is issue a message(FATAL_ERROR) if the generator is not supported.

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