[CMake] CMAKE_C++_CREATE_SHARED_LIBRARY missing

[Andreas Mohr]

Hi,

On Sun, Jul 10, 2016 at 12:00:02PM -0400, cmake-request at cmake.org wrote:
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> Hi.
> 
> I use cmake 3.3.1 on Red-Hat 5 and 6.
> When I generate a project I get the following error:
> 
> CMake Error: Error required internal CMake variable not set, cmake may be not be built correctly.
> Missing variable is:
> CMAKE_C++_CREATE_SHARED_LIBRARY
> 
> However, after the error the generation succeeds and I can build the project successfully.
> The same project is generated without errors on Windows 7 with Visual Studio generators and other projects are also generated without errors on the same Linux machine.
> 
> Does anyone knows the source of that error?

Rimshot idea:

Quite possibly someone did a
    project(foo C C++)
rather than using the (IIRC - no docs here ATM) correct CXX.

HTH,

Andreas Mohr