[cmake-developers] COMPILE_LANGUAGE generator expression

[Brad King]

On 02/23/2015 03:19 PM, Stephen Kelly wrote:
> Brad King wrote:
>> However, in VS >= 10 each source-specific property value must explicitly
>> reference the target-wide value to not be totally overridden.
> 
> Is this already the case to handle the COMPILE_FLAGS source file property?

Yes.  We generate %(AdditionalOptions) into the per-source value to
refer to the target-level value.

> For the convenience of buildsystems which do not target the IDEs, should we 
> allow the use of COMPILE_LANGUAGE? And issue an error if using an IDE 
> generator?

That sounds good.  We can always define non-error behavior later.

-Brad