From 2c9f35789d4955bf77436091d1535ed8761a15d2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Christian Pfeiffer <cpfeiffer@live.de>
Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2017 18:10:28 +0200
Subject: VS: Decide project type by linker lang as fallback

Fixes: #16738
---
 Source/cmGlobalVisualStudioGenerator.cxx | 14 ++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+)

diff --git a/Source/cmGlobalVisualStudioGenerator.cxx b/Source/cmGlobalVisualStudioGenerator.cxx
index 32579aa..eb92b83 100644
--- a/Source/cmGlobalVisualStudioGenerator.cxx
+++ b/Source/cmGlobalVisualStudioGenerator.cxx
@@ -729,12 +729,26 @@ bool cmGlobalVisualStudioGenerator::TargetIsFortranOnly(
       return false;
     }
   }
+  // If there's only one source language, Fortran has to be used
+  // in order for the sources to compile.
+  // Note: Via linker propagation, LINKER_LANGUAGE could become CXX in
+  // this situation and mismatch from the actual language of the linker.
   gt->GetLanguages(languages, "");
   if (languages.size() == 1) {
     if (*languages.begin() == "Fortran") {
       return true;
     }
   }
+
+  // In the case of mixed object files or sources mixed with objects,
+  // decide the language based on the value of LINKER_LANGUAGE.
+  // This will not make it possible to mix source files of different
+  // languages, but object libraries will be linked together in the
+  // same fashion as other generators do.
+  if (gt->GetLinkerLanguage("") == "Fortran") {
+    return true;
+  }
+
   return false;
 }
 
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