[cmake-developers] 3.12.0-rc1: C# project outputting as a "vcxproj" (C++ project)

[Brad King]

On 06/26/2018 10:25 AM, Robert Dailey wrote:
> To fix this issue for now I had to do this:
> 
>         set_property( TARGET ${project_name} PROPERTY LINKER_LANGUAGE CSharp )
> 
> I don't remember having to explicitly tell CMake that the project is
> CSharp in the past; it was always able to deduce it before. Is this
> considered a symptom of a bug? Or is this required behavior? To be
> honest, I'm not sure what criteria is used by CMake to deduce the
> linker language of targets, especially in the C# case. It appears that
> introducing a link-level dependency from a C# project to a Managed C++
> project, forces the parent project to be C++ as well.

Please open an issue for that.

Thanks,
-Brad