Strange visual studio compiler error, :N0.obj

I am working on a project using visual studio 2013 as an IDE, with a solution file that was generated from cmake. I have encountered this strange error that does not allow me to build my code with the release configuration, even though the code worked fine in the debug configuration. The error is the following:

error LNK1104: cannot open file ':N0.obj'

Not sure why this occurs as I have never seen nor created a N0.obj file. The Out put window gives me this:

3>  Generating Code...
3>LINK : fatal error LNK1104: cannot open file ':NO.obj'

Any help would be appreciated