Set BUILD_TESTING to OFF by default using CTest

Question

When you do include(CTest) in CMake it includes this line:

option(BUILD_TESTING "Build the testing tree." ON)

I want tests to be not built by default (but overridable on the command line). How can I do that?

Answer 1

Ah this seems to do the trick:

option(BUILD_TESTING "" OFF)
include(CTest)