CMake unable to determine linker language with C++

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I also got the error you mention:

CMake Error: CMake can not determine linker language for target:helloworld
CMake Error: Cannot determine link language for target "helloworld".

In my case this was due to having C++ files with the .cc extension.

If CMake is unable to determine the language of the code correctly you can use the following:

set_target_properties(hello PROPERTIES LINKER_LANGUAGE CXX)

The accepted answer that suggests appending the language to the project() statement simply adds more strict checking for what language is used (according to the documentation), but it wasn’t helpful to me:

Optionally you can specify which languages your project supports.
Example languages are CXX (i.e. C++), C, Fortran, etc. By default C
and CXX are enabled. E.g. if you do not have a C++ compiler, you can
disable the check for it by explicitly listing the languages you want
to support, e.g. C. By using the special language “NONE” all checks
for any language can be disabled. If a variable exists called
CMAKE_PROJECT__INCLUDE_FILE, the file pointed to by that
variable will be included as the last step of the project command.

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