diff --git a/tesseract_kinematics/CMakeLists.txt b/tesseract_kinematics/CMakeLists.txt
index 6c2f3b747c8..a72b68e30b5 100644
--- a/tesseract_kinematics/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/tesseract_kinematics/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ cmake_minimum_required(VERSION 3.15.0)
 # Extract package name and version
 find_package(ros_industrial_cmake_boilerplate REQUIRED)
 extract_package_metadata(pkg)
-project(${pkg_extracted_name} VERSION ${pkg_extracted_version} LANGUAGES CXX)
+project(${pkg_extracted_name} VERSION ${pkg_extracted_version} LANGUAGES C CXX)
 
 if(WIN32)
   set(CMAKE_WINDOWS_EXPORT_ALL_SYMBOLS ON)