In my project I need to manually link against a special version of libstdc++, so I manually set the target link language to C and then add my special library to the link line.  On Linux this seems to work just fine, but on OSX it still add -lstdc++ to the link like.  Here&#39;s my cmake code:<div>

<br></div><div><div>cmake_minimum_required(VERSION 2.8)</div><div>project(linking_fun)</div><div><br></div><div>add_library(a SHARED a.cpp)</div><div>set_target_properties(a PROPERTIES LINKER_LANGUAGE &quot;C&quot;)</div>

<div><br></div><div>add_library(b SHARED b.c)</div></div><div><br></div><div>a.cpp and b.c both simply have &#39;int foo() { return 3;}&#39;</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>And here&#39;s the compiler output which has the -lstdc++ on the link line for library a, but not for library b.</div>

<div><br></div><div><div><font color="#ff0000">Linking C shared library liba.dylib</font></div><div>/opt/local/bin/cmake -E cmake_link_script CMakeFiles/a.dir/link.txt --verbose=1</div><div>/usr/bin/gcc   -dynamiclib -Wl,-headerpad_max_install_names   -o liba.dylib -install_name /Users/jbigler/code/temp/cmake/static-libstdcpp/liba.dylib CMakeFiles/a.dir/a.cpp.o <span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,0)">-lstdc++</span> /usr/bin/../lib/clang/4.0/lib/darwin/libclang_rt.osx.a </div>

<div>/opt/local/bin/cmake -E cmake_progress_report /Users/jbigler/code/temp/cmake/static-libstdcpp/CMakeFiles  1</div><div>[ 50%] Built target a</div><div>make -f CMakeFiles/b.dir/build.make CMakeFiles/b.dir/depend</div>
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cd /Users/jbigler/code/temp/cmake/static-libstdcpp &amp;&amp; /opt/local/bin/cmake -E cmake_depends &quot;Unix Makefiles&quot; /Users/jbigler/code/temp/cmake/static-libstdcpp /Users/jbigler/code/temp/cmake/static-libstdcpp /Users/jbigler/code/temp/cmake/static-libstdcpp /Users/jbigler/code/temp/cmake/static-libstdcpp /Users/jbigler/code/temp/cmake/static-libstdcpp/CMakeFiles/b.dir/DependInfo.cmake --color=</div>

<div>make -f CMakeFiles/b.dir/build.make CMakeFiles/b.dir/build</div><div><font color="#ff0000">Linking C shared library libb.dylib</font></div><div>/opt/local/bin/cmake -E cmake_link_script CMakeFiles/b.dir/link.txt --verbose=1</div>

<div>/usr/bin/gcc   -dynamiclib -Wl,-headerpad_max_install_names   -o libb.dylib -install_name /Users/jbigler/code/temp/cmake/static-libstdcpp/libb.dylib CMakeFiles/b.dir/b.c.o </div></div><div><br></div><div>Is this a bug or a &quot;feature&quot;?</div>

<div><br></div><div>James</div>