# Listing available targets with cmake ?
**URL:** https://discourse.cmake.org/t/listing-available-targets-with-cmake/10855
**Category:** Usage
**Created:** [May 14, 2024, 8:52pm UTC](https://discourse.cmake.org/t/listing-available-targets-with-cmake/10855 "2024-05-14T20:52:09Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author:  [@neundorf](https://discourse.cmake.org/u/neundorf)
#### Post date: [May 14, 2024, 8:52pm UTC](https://discourse.cmake.org/t/listing-available-targets-with-cmake/10855/1 "2024-05-14T20:52:09Z")
Hi,
I can use cmake from the command line to configure a project, to build it and to install it.
But is there a way to list all buildable targets ?
When using makefiles, I can do “make help”, with ninja I can do “ninja -t targets all”.
But is there something generic like “cmake --list-targets” ?
Otherwise it’s kind of hard to find the name of the target to build with “cmake --build . --target foo”
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### Author:  [@ClausKlein](https://discourse.cmake.org/u/ClausKlein)
#### Post date: [May 15, 2024, 7:12pm UTC](https://discourse.cmake.org/t/listing-available-targets-with-cmake/10855/2 "2024-05-15T19:12:10Z")
`cmake --build . --target help` works always or not?
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### Author:  [@neundorf](https://discourse.cmake.org/u/neundorf)
#### Post date: [May 17, 2024, 8:24pm UTC](https://discourse.cmake.org/t/listing-available-targets-with-cmake/10855/3 "2024-05-17T20:24:14Z")
When using the Visual Studio generator it doesn’t work, it complains there is no such project file.
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### Author:  [@ben.boeckel](https://discourse.cmake.org/u/ben.boeckel)
#### Post date: [March 4, 2025, 9:18am UTC](https://discourse.cmake.org/t/listing-available-targets-with-cmake/10855/4 "2025-03-04T09:18:45Z")
Maybe some `find`-based command that finds VS project files? But a `help` target could probably be added to the VS generator.