# Visual Studio 12 2013

Generates Visual Studio 12 (VS 2013) project files.

The `CMAKE_GENERATOR_PLATFORM` variable may be set to specify a target platform name (architecture).

For compatibility with CMake versions prior to 3.1, one may specify a target platform name optionally at the end of this generator name:

`Visual Studio 12 2013 Win64`
  Specify target platform `x64`.
`Visual Studio 12 2013 ARM`
  Specify target platform `ARM`.

For compatibility with CMake versions prior to 3.0, one may specify this generator using the name “Visual Studio 12” without the year component.