CMake unable to determine linker language with C++

Question

I\'m attempting to run a cmake hello world program on Windows 7 x64 with both Visual Studio 2010 and Cygwin, but can\'t seem to get either to work. My directory structure is

Answer 1

A bit unrelated answer to OP but for people like me with a somewhat similar problem.

Use Case: Ubuntu (C, Clion, Auto-completion):

I had the same error,

CMake Error: Cannot determine link language for target "hello".

set_target_properties(hello PROPERTIES LINKER_LANGUAGE C) help fixes that problem but the headers aren't included to the project and the autocompletion wont work.

This is what i had

cmake_minimum_required(VERSION 3.5)

project(hello)

set(CMAKE_CXX_FLAGS "${CMAKE_CXX_FLAGS} -std=c++11")

set(SOURCE_FILES ./)

add_executable(hello ${SOURCE_FILES})

set_target_properties(hello PROPERTIES LINKER_LANGUAGE C)

No errors but not what i needed, i realized including a single file as source will get me autocompletion as well as it will set the linker to C.

cmake_minimum_required(VERSION 3.5)

project(hello)

set(CMAKE_CXX_FLAGS "${CMAKE_CXX_FLAGS} -std=c++11")

set(SOURCE_FILES ./1_helloworld.c)

add_executable(hello ${SOURCE_FILES})