For each toolset that comes with this version of Visual Studio, there are variants that are themselves compiled for 32-bit (x86) and 64-bit (x64) hosts (independent of the architecture they target). By default Visual Studio chooses the 32-bit variant even on a 64-bit host. One may request use of the 64-bit host tools by adding ``host=x64`` to the toolset specification: ``host=x64`` Select the 64-bit variant of the default toolset. ``,host=x64`` Select the 64-bit variant of the ```` toolset.