That could be solved by a "configure" script that translates its arguments to ones that cmake will understand. And it seems it's such a good idea that someone

That could be solved by a "configure" script that translates its arguments to ones that cmake will understand. And it seems it's such a good idea that someone has already made one: https://github.com/Richard-W/cmake-configure-wrapper https://github.com/Richard-W/cmake-configure-wrapper