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Retarget to higher visual studio version in Cmake Project

I got into this problem when I was trying to compile  VK-GL-CTS  on my new windows machine but I have installed the latest version of Visual Studio which was ` Visual studio 2019 ` Now when I tried to compile it as per the steps in VK-GL-CTS I get the weird issue. CMake Error at CMakeLists.txt:16 (project):   Failed to run MSBuild command:     MSBuild.exe   to get the value of VCTargetsPath:     Microsoft (R) Build Engine version 16.5.0+d4cbfca49 for .NET Framework     Copyright (C) Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.     Build started 5/12/2020 7:19:51 PM.     ...     ...     Build FAILED. So the problem is pretty weird and not quite understandable at least for me. (I am not a windows guy) Then i tried to look into the Generators. cmake .. -DDEQP_TARGET=default -G CMake Error: No generator specified for -G Generators   Visual Studio 15 2017 [arch] = Generates Visual Studio 2017 p...

How to update git in Windows automatically

It is quite easy to update git on windows, I was previously thinking it will be difficult that I have to remove then download and then re-install in order to update git on windows. To update the git for windows, there is a simple command to do so. Open command terminal, with admin privileges and run below command # git update-git-for-windows  That is it !! Happy Hacking :)