Is it possible to specify generator?

[fralik]

I wonder if it is possible to specify generator via pyproject.toml file? Or shall we rely on auto-detection of the most suitable generator? I am on Windows, would like to use Ninja, but VS Studio is keep being selected.

[henryiii]

You can set cmake.args = ["-GNinja"]. If you want to customize this per-platform, you can use [[tool.scikit-build.overrides]]. Now you can even use inherit to build them up. However, ninja's not as well supported quite yet on Windows; we won't detect cmake.args's -G when computing get_requries_* (MSVC ships with ninja, so that's pretty safe), and we won't look in the registry and activate MSVC for you, so it needs to be done in a dev console or after activating vcvars.bat.

[fralik]

Thanks!