How to enable C++17 in CMake

Question

I\'m using VS 15.3, which supports integrated CMake 3.8. How can I target C++17 without writing flags for each specific compilers? My current global settings don\'t work:

Answer 1

You can keep that set(CMAKE_CXX_STANDARD 17) for other compilers, like Clang and GCC. But for Visual Studio, it's useless.

If CMake still doesn't support this, you can do the following:

if(MSVC)
set(CMAKE_CXX_FLAGS "${CMAKE_CXX_FLAGS} /std:c++17")
endif(MSVC)