Many CMake users have muscle memory for the three-stanza configure, build, test with CMake:

cmake -B build
# configure CMake and generate build files

cmake --build build
# compile and link binaries

ctest --test-dir build
# run program self-tests

This can be reduced to a single command for many programs:

ctest -S setup.cmake

where a single file setup.cmake is added to the project.

Command-line options like “-Dvar=yes” must be aggregated and passed along to ctest_configure(OPTIONS) in setup.cmake.