How to do dry run with CMake?

Question

With GNU make, a dry run can be performed via

make -n

Is there a similar option for CMake? The best I could come up with is

cmake ..
make -n | grep -vi cmake

However, I am being too restrictive and am wondering if there is an easier way to achieve this.

Answer 1

According to the command line syntax, if you use -- on the command line with cmake, the parameters following that are passed directly to the native build tool. Eg. what you did is somewhat equivalent to this:

cmake ..
cmake --build -- -n