I have a Visual Studio v140 C++ project with CLR support building a static library. The project builds fine. I created another C++ project with CLR support that builds a console application. This too builds fine. But when I try to reference my first project from my second project and build the project, it fails with the following error

Error C1113 #using failed on ‘project1.lib’

I don’t have any content in the projects other than the autogenerated files. I was also able to regenerate the issue in a completely new solution. Am I missing something or is referencing a CLR project from another not allowed?