[CMake] Compile project as C++ if MSVC

[J Decker]

2011/12/23 Mateusz Łoskot <mateusz at loskot.net>:
> On 23 December 2011 15:07, Bill Hoffman <bill.hoffman at kitware.com> wrote:
>> Back to the original question, just to be clear.
>>
>> The right way to do this is with the set_source_files_properties command:
>>
>> set_source_files_properties(<SRC> PROPERTIES LANGUAGE CXX)

This works well; when I implemented it I ended up wanting to compile
as C and C++ the same code, so I used cmake copy_if_different
functionality to copy all the .c files and directory structure to the
build directory, and rename to .cpp during the copy

>
> Thanks Bill.
>
> It is always good to learn new things about favourite build toolset :)
>
> Best regards,
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