Set the position for service CMake files - cmake

Question

I'm building a C[++] project with CMake.
After running cmake --build ... I have a build folder in my project containing my binary plus some CMake service file like that:
.
|____CMakeLists.txt
|____build
| |____compile_commands.json
| |____CMakeFiles
| |____Makefile
| |____cmake_install.cmake
| |____CMakeCache.txt
| |____project.a
| |____.cmake
|____include
|____src
Is it possible to configure CMake to move all those files (except the actually built binaries) to some other place?
I can imagine something like:
.
|____CMakeLists.txt
|____build
| |____project.a
| |____.cmake
| |____compile_commands.json
| |____CMakeFiles
| |____Makefile
| |____cmake_install.cmake
| |____CMakeCache.txt
| |____etc
| |____...
|____include
|____src

Answer 1

Trying to force cmake to generate a specific file structure well supported. I recommend approaching the problem from the other end instead: Determine the location where cmake outputs the binaries. You simply need to set some or all of the following variables:
CMAKE_ARCHIVE_OUTPUT_DIRECTORY
CMAKE_LIBRARY_OUTPUT_DIRECTORY
CMAKE_PDB_OUTPUT_DIRECTORY
CMAKE_RUNTIME_OUTPUT_DIRECTORY
CMake presets would be a convenient place to set this kind of info:
...
configurePresets": [
{
...
"cacheVariables": {
"CMAKE_RUNTIME_OUTPUT_DIRECTORY": {
"type": "PATH",
"value": "${sourceDir}/build_binaries"
},
"CMAKE_LIBRARY_OUTPUT_DIRECTORY": {
"type": "PATH",
"value": "${sourceDir}/build_binaries"
},
"CMAKE_ARCHIVE_OUTPUT_DIRECTORY": {
"type": "PATH",
"value": "${sourceDir}/build_binaries"
},
"CMAKE_PDB_OUTPUT_DIRECTORY": {
"type": "PATH",
"value": "${sourceDir}/build_binaries"
}
},
...
},
...
]
...
This only provides default values though. The corresponding target properties (e.g. RUNTIME_OUTPUT_DIRECTORY) take precedence. Furthermore there's the possibility of the cache variables being shadowed by variables of the same name specified in your cmake files.
Note: If you want to put the binaries for a project in a file structure suitable for deployment, you should be using install() functionality instead.