# CMAKE_VS_WINDOWS_TARGET_PLATFORM_VERSION

New in version 3.4.

Visual Studio Windows Target Platform Version.

When targeting Windows 10 and above Visual Studio 2015 and above support specification of a target Windows version to select a corresponding SDK. The `CMAKE_SYSTEM_VERSION` variable may be set to specify a version. Otherwise CMake computes a default version based on the Windows SDK versions available. The chosen Windows target version number is provided in `CMAKE_VS_WINDOWS_TARGET_PLATFORM_VERSION`. If no Windows 10 SDK is available this value will be empty.

One may set a `CMAKE_WINDOWS_KITS_10_DIR` environment variable to an absolute path to tell CMake to look for Windows 10 SDKs in a custom location. The specified directory is expected to contain `Include/10.0.*` directories.

See also `CMAKE_VS_WINDOWS_TARGET_PLATFORM_VERSION_MAXIMUM`.