The version of Microsoft Visual C/C++ being used if any. If a compiler simulating Visual C++ is being used, this variable is set to the toolset version simulated as given by the _MSC_VER
preprocessor definition.
Known version numbers are:
1200 = VS 6.0 1300 = VS 7.0 1310 = VS 7.1 1400 = VS 8.0 (v80 toolset) 1500 = VS 9.0 (v90 toolset) 1600 = VS 10.0 (v100 toolset) 1700 = VS 11.0 (v110 toolset) 1800 = VS 12.0 (v120 toolset) 1900 = VS 14.0 (v140 toolset) 1910-1919 = VS 15.0 (v141 toolset) 1920-1929 = VS 16.0 (v142 toolset)
See also the CMAKE_<LANG>_COMPILER_VERSION
and MSVC_TOOLSET_VERSION
variable.
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