Get product version via terminal when building cmake project

Question

Is there a way to get product version when building the project via cmake from terminal. In the CMakeLists.txt I have declared:

project(sayProject VERSION "1.0")

Appreciate any help.

Answer 1

If you want to read the setting of PROJECT_VERSION without actually running cmake, then this answer will get you that.

Specifically, I use this script:

cmake --system-information |
  awk -F= '$1~/CMAKE_PROJECT_VERSION:STATIC/{print$2}'