[CMake] Mixing c and c++ with MinGW
Werner Smekal
smekal at iap.tuwien.ac.at
Fri Dec 29 11:09:57 EST 2006
Hi Bill,
thanks a lot, that is what I needed.
Regards,
Werner
Bill Hoffman wrote:
> Werner Smekal wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> it is normally possible to mix c and c++ in a project with the GNU
>> compiler. Normally you compile c files with gcc and c++ files with g++
>> and than link all together with g++.
>>
>> In our project (plplot) we allow c++ code into the mainly c code
>> library under some circumstances - everything works fine, ar links
>> everything together.
>>
>> We have now c and c++ examples which use this mixed library, but the c
>> examples won't compile with gcc obviously since a lot of c++ stuff is
>> unreferenced.
>>
>> I tried to set CC to g++, but cmake didn't allow this.
>>
>> Is there any solution for this problem?
> See :
>
> SET_TARGET_PROPERTIES(target1 target2 ...
> PROPERTIES prop1 value1
> prop2 value2 ...)
> ....
>
> The LINKER_LANGUAGE property is used to change the tool used to link an
> executable or shared library. The default is set the language to match
> the files in the library. CXX and C are common values for this property.
>
> You can use that property to link with c++ but compile with c.
>
> -Bill
>
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