Visual Studio 2012 and Itanium target

Question

I can't find clear indication regarding Itanium support in Visual Studio 2012. The IDE (VS 2012 Premium Release as included in MSDN subscription) lets you set corresponding target for C++ or C++/CLR project, but complains about missing toolset when you try to compile the Itanium target. I did find older articles saying that Itanium support would be dropped in VS 2012 altogether, but the target can be created, so I am confused. Any ideas?

Answer 1

Looks like you need to set Platform Toolset option to v100 for Itanium target, then the target can be built (I have VS 2010 installed, so I assume that toolset v100 comes with VS 2010 and may not be available on a clear machine with only VS 2012 installed).