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

[Robert Dailey]

I'm happy to do that. I assume you would require an MCVE for that bug?
If so it will take me considerably longer, as I don't have a lot of
time to build a reproducible example from scratch. I'll do my best,
though.

On Tue, Jun 26, 2018 at 10:06 AM, Brad King <brad.king at kitware.com> wrote:
> 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