[CMake] *.c compiled with C compiler after clearing CMAKE_C_SOURCE_FILE_EXTENSIONS

[Michael Wild]

On 12. Oct, 2010, at 15:26 , Jed Brown wrote:

> I realize this may look silly, but after
> 
>  list (REMOVE_ITEM CMAKE_C_SOURCE_FILE_EXTENSIONS c)
>  list (APPEND CMAKE_CXX_SOURCE_FILE_EXTENSIONS c)
> 
> source files matching *.c are still compiled with the C compiler (not C++).
> Is there a way to get *.c compiled with the C++ compiler?
> 
> (cmake-2.8.2)
> 
> Jed

This should do the trick:

set(SRCS src1.c src2.c src3.c)
set_source_files_properties(${SRCS} PROPERTIES LANGUAGE CXX)
add_executable(strange_beast ${SRCS})

Michael

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