diff --git a/Source/cmExportFileGenerator.cxx b/Source/cmExportFileGenerator.cxx
index a30c5e4e2..14be5cd47 100644
--- a/Source/cmExportFileGenerator.cxx
+++ b/Source/cmExportFileGenerator.cxx
@@ -185,6 +185,10 @@ bool cmExportFileGenerator::PopulateInterfaceLinkLibrariesProperty(
                       ImportPropertyMap &properties,
                       std::vector<std::string> &missingTargets)
 {
+  if(!target->IsLinkable())
+    {
+    return false;
+    }
   const char *input = target->GetProperty("INTERFACE_LINK_LIBRARIES");
   if (input)
     {
diff --git a/Tests/RunCMake/CMP0022/CMP0022-export-exe-stderr.txt b/Tests/RunCMake/CMP0022/CMP0022-export-exe-stderr.txt
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..10f32932e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Tests/RunCMake/CMP0022/CMP0022-export-exe-stderr.txt
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+^$
diff --git a/Tests/RunCMake/CMP0022/CMP0022-export-exe.cmake b/Tests/RunCMake/CMP0022/CMP0022-export-exe.cmake
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..d832faceb
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Tests/RunCMake/CMP0022/CMP0022-export-exe.cmake
@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+enable_language(CXX)
+
+cmake_policy(SET CMP0022 NEW)
+
+add_library(testLib empty_vs6_1.cpp)
+add_executable(testExe empty_vs6_2.cpp)
+target_link_libraries(testExe testLib)
+
+export(TARGETS testExe FILE "${CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR}/cmp0022NEW-exe.cmake")
diff --git a/Tests/RunCMake/CMP0022/RunCMakeTest.cmake b/Tests/RunCMake/CMP0022/RunCMakeTest.cmake
index 9123f6d18..45b56e405 100644
--- a/Tests/RunCMake/CMP0022/RunCMakeTest.cmake
+++ b/Tests/RunCMake/CMP0022/RunCMakeTest.cmake
@@ -8,4 +8,5 @@ run_cmake(CMP0022-NOWARN-shared)
 run_cmake(CMP0022-NOWARN-static)
 run_cmake(CMP0022-NOWARN-static-link_libraries)
 run_cmake(CMP0022-export)
+run_cmake(CMP0022-export-exe)
 run_cmake(CMP0022-install-export)