# CMAKE_BUILD_PARALLEL_LEVEL

Added in version 3.12.

This is a CMake Environment Variable. Its initial value is taken from the calling process environment.

Specifies the maximum number of concurrent processes to use when building using the `cmake --build` command line Build Tool Mode. For example, if `CMAKE_BUILD_PARALLEL_LEVEL` is set to 8, the underlying build tool will execute up to 8 jobs concurrently as if `cmake --build` were invoked with the `--parallel 8` option.

If this variable is defined empty the native build tool's default number is used.