How to fix SDCC 'at 1: warning 119: don't know what to do with file 'main.o'. file extension unsupported'

If you use SDCC to compile your C code for your microcontroller and you encounter an error message like this:

at 1: warning 119: don't know what to do with file 'main.o'. file extension unsupported

you have to configure your build system to use the .rel suffix for object files instead of the standard .o. SDCC expects built object files to have the .rel extension! See How to change CMake object file suffix from default “.o” for details on how to do that in CMake.