[FR]: Remove Language C dependency on cmakes.

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Does the feature exist in the most recent commit?

I noticed the CMake imposes this in projects that use googletest and compile it as part of their build process.

I am talking specifically about CMakeLists.txt in googletest and googlemock lines 50 and 40 respectively:

project(gtest/mock VERSION ${GOOGLETEST_VERSION} LANGUAGES CXX C)

I have tried to edit the cmake, and remove the C language and it seems working, but I am not so familiar with code base of gtest if it is still required.

I tried to go the old method of compiling it separately and linking it. however that is significantly more complex than fetching it from the repo. Unfortunately set(gtest_force_shared_crt ON CACHE BOOL "" FORCE) didn't work either.

Why do we need this feature?

It would make it easier to integrate it using cmake.

Describe the proposal.

remove the C from languages in project setup in cmake.

Is the feature specific to an operating system, compiler, or build system version?

I have been using windows (msvc and ninja). Unfortunately I don't know the impact of this on other platforms.