[CMake] Using C++ compilers for C source files?

[Alexandre Feblot]

Hi,

Look at that thread...
http://www.cmake.org/pipermail/cmake/2009-March/028352.html


Regards,
Alexandre

-----Original Message-----
From: cmake-bounces at cmake.org [mailto:cmake-bounces at cmake.org] On Behalf
Of Robert Blake
Sent: Friday, 03 April 2009 16:46
To: cmake at cmake.org
Subject: [CMake] Using C++ compilers for C source files?

I'm converting a large mixed C++/C cmake application to C++.  The  
project has many ".c" files that I would like to compile with the C++  
compiler instead of the C compiler.  Does anyone know the proper way  
to do this in CMake?

Things I've tried:
1.) Changing CMAKE_C_COMPILER myself: Usually CMake doesn't let you  
change CMAKE_C_COMPILER, but there are ways around that.  This way  
feels like a hack.  The output while compiling still says "Compiling  
C".  In addition, forcing CMAKE_*_COMPILER to change makes it very  
difficult to run plane cmake on Unix machines where curses is not  
installed.

2.) Tell CMake that ".c" files are in the CXX language:  I've tried
PROJECT(Blah CXX)
list(APPEND CMAKE_CXX_SOURCE_FILE_EXTENSIONS c)

When I run CMake on my project with these changes, I get errors like:

CMake Error: Cannot determine link language for target "foobar"

...for all my targets that depend only on .c files.

Help!
Rob


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