diff --git a/CMakeLists.txt b/CMakeLists.txt
index 93b0bdf42..761c439af 100644
--- a/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -8,6 +8,8 @@ cmake_minimum_required(VERSION 2.8.11)
 SET(CMAKE_AUTOMOC ON)
 SET(CMAKE_AUTOUIC ON)
 OPTION(PREFER_GIT_FROMSOURCE "Turn off if you wanna use system's libgit 0.21.5" ON)
+OPTION(NO_TESTS "disable the tests" OFF)
+OPTION(NO_DOCS "disable the docs" OFF)
 
 SET(CMAKE_MODULE_PATH ${${PROJECT_NAME}_SOURCE_DIR}/cmake/Modules)
 INCLUDE_DIRECTORIES( . ${CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR} ${CMAKE_BINARY_DIR} qt-ui qt-ui/profile)
@@ -339,12 +341,16 @@ ENDMACRO()
 ENABLE_TESTING()
 ADD_DEFINITIONS(-DSUBSURFACE_SOURCE="${CMAKE_SOURCE_DIR}")
 ADD_DEFINITIONS(-g)
-test(TestUnitConversion testunitconversion.cpp)
-test(TestProfile testprofile.cpp)
-test(TestGpsCoords testgpscoords.cpp)
-test(TestParse testparse.cpp)
+IF(NOT NO_TESTS)
+	test(TestUnitConversion testunitconversion.cpp)
+	test(TestProfile testprofile.cpp)
+	test(TestGpsCoords testgpscoords.cpp)
+	test(TestParse testparse.cpp)
+ENDIF()
 
-ADD_CUSTOM_TARGET(documentation ALL mkdir -p ${CMAKE_BINARY_DIR}/Documentation/ \\; make -C ${CMAKE_SOURCE_DIR}/Documentation OUT=${CMAKE_BINARY_DIR}/Documentation/ doc)
+IF(NOT NO_DOCS)
+	ADD_CUSTOM_TARGET(documentation ALL mkdir -p ${CMAKE_BINARY_DIR}/Documentation/ \\; make -C ${CMAKE_SOURCE_DIR}/Documentation OUT=${CMAKE_BINARY_DIR}/Documentation/ doc)
+ENDIF()
 
 # install Subsurface
 # first some variables with files that need installing