–trace has the lovely --trace-format=json-v1.
Is there something similar for regular cmake output? Having the cmake output in a structured, json form, would be super-useful for embedding cmake results in a larger structured build report.
Not today, no. I suppose SARIF could be output some day, but I don’t know how much work that would end up being.
You might be interested in the following issue discussion which proposes something along the lines of what you’re asking about:
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