# Visual Studio 9 2008

Deprecated. Generates Visual Studio 9 2008 project files.

Note

This generator is deprecated and will be removed in a future version of CMake. It will still be possible to build with VS 9 2008 tools using the `Visual Studio 14 2015` generator (or above, and with VS 10 2010 also installed) with `CMAKE_GENERATOR_TOOLSET` set to `v90`, or by using the `NMake Makefiles` generator.

## Platform Selection

The default target platform name (architecture) is `Win32`.

New in version 3.1: The `CMAKE_GENERATOR_PLATFORM` variable may be set, perhaps via the `cmake -A` option, to specify a target platform name (architecture). For example:

- `cmake -G "Visual Studio 9 2008" -A Win32`

- `cmake -G "Visual Studio 9 2008" -A x64`

- `cmake -G "Visual Studio 9 2008" -A Itanium`

- `cmake -G "Visual Studio 9 2008" -A <WinCE-SDK>` (Specify a target platform matching a Windows CE SDK name.)

For compatibility with CMake versions prior to 3.1, one may specify a target platform name optionally at the end of the generator name. This is supported only for:

`Visual Studio 9 2008 Win64`

  Specify target platform `x64`.

`Visual Studio 9 2008 IA64`

  Specify target platform `Itanium`.

`Visual Studio 9 2008 <WinCE-SDK>`

  Specify target platform matching a Windows CE SDK name.