How to add in a CMake project a global file extension (*.pde) to GCC which is treated like C++ code

Question

I have a very simple CMake script. Unfortunately, the project uses a *.pde file which is plain C++ or C code.

CMake is working with any file ending, but I get a comp

Answer 1

I decided to use this approach. I just remove the file ending by cmake in the temporary build directory. So GCC is not confused anymore because of the strange Arduino *.pde file extension.

# Exchange the file ending of the Arduino project file
configure_file(${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR}/tinycopter.pde ${CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR}/tinycopter.cpp)