architecture

Specifies the system architecture to be targeted by the configuration.

architecture ("value")

Parameters

value is one of:

• universal: The universal binaries supported by iOS and macOS
• x86
• x86_64
• ARM
• ARM64
• RISCV64
• loongarch64
• ppc
• ppc64
• wasm32,
• wasm64,
• e2k,
• mips64el,
• armv5: Only supported in VSAndroid projects
• armv7: Only supported in VSAndroid projects
• aarch64: Only supported in VSAndroid projects
• mips: Only supported in VSAndroid projects
• mips64: Only supported in VSAndroid projects

Additional values that are aliases for the above:

• i386: Alias for x86
• amd64: Alias for x86_64
• x32: Alias for x86; There is intent to deprecate this
• x64: Alias for x86_64; There is intent to deprecate this

Applies To

Project configurations.

Availability

Premake 5.0 or later.

Examples

Set up 32- and 64-bit Windows builds.

workspace "MyWorkspace"
   configurations { "Debug32", "Release32", "Debug64", "Release64" }

   filter "configurations:*32"
      architecture "x86"

   filter "configurations:*64"
      architecture "x86_64"

See Also

• system