[CMake] Mixed Fortran and C sources with Visual Studio 10

[Arjen Markus]

Hi Brian,

as I understand it, it is an explicit limitation of Visual Studio that a VS project can only contain
a single programming language. The solution to this would to split the sources into separate lists and
build libraries from them.

An alternative might be to use the Nmake approach - that is, use plain makefiles instead
of Visual Studio to build the project.

Regards,

Arjen

> -----Original Message-----
> From: cmake-bounces at cmake.org [mailto:cmake-bounces at cmake.org] On Behalf
> Of Brian Wainscott
> Sent: Tuesday, October 22, 2013 12:50 AM
> To: cmake at cmake.org
> Subject: [CMake] Mixed Fortran and C sources with Visual Studio 10
>
> I'm trying to convert a large(ish) project to cmake.  Everything works fine in Linux, but
> I'm having problems on Windows.
>
> Specifically, we have both C and Fortran sources mixed together in a single directory.
> Cmake is producing an vcxproj file and none of the Fortran code gets compiled.
>
> I've been informed that I probably need two project files, one for C and one for
> Fortran (vfproj).  OK -- so why does cmake not then produce two project files?
> Am I missing a flag or setting somewhere?
>
> As a concrete test, I tried this for a CMakeLists.txt file:
>
> enable_language(Fortran)
> enable_language(C)
> add_executable(tst tst.F cfunc.c)
>
> with a trivial Fortran main and C subroutine.  It builds fine in Linux, but not on
> Windows.
>
> Everything works so well in Linux that I have a hard time believing that anything
> complex should be required for Windows -- I must be missing something simple but
> can't find any information on what it might be.
>
> Any suggestions on how to get this to work?
>
> I'm using cmake 2.8.11.2 with VS 10 and my Fortran compiler is Intel Composer XE
> 2013.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Brian
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