Cmake 3.17 Visual Studio 2015 x64 MinGW64 fortran compilation issues

Since the external project (Fortran subdirectory) fails to build with:

mingw32-make.exe: *** No targets specified and no makefile found. Stop

I suspect something is going wrong earlier.

In the Fortran subdirectory I see:

project(strandf Fortran C)

That will look for a mingw C compiler in addition to a mingw Fortran compiler. Is the C compiler installed?