diff --git a/CMakeLists.txt b/CMakeLists.txt
index 18a3be3a3..2e3b406d5 100644
--- a/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -27,6 +27,7 @@ option(SLIC3R_MSVC_COMPILE_PARALLEL "Compile on Visual Studio in parallel" 1)
 option(SLIC3R_MSVC_PDB          "Generate PDB files on MSVC in Release mode" 1)
 option(SLIC3R_PERL_XS           "Compile XS Perl module and enable Perl unit and integration tests" 0)
 option(SLIC3R_ASAN              "Enable ASan on Clang and GCC" 0)
+option(SLIC3R_SYNTAXONLY        "Only perform source code correctness checking, no binary output (UNIX only)" 0)
 
 # Proposal for C++ unit tests and sandboxes
 option(SLIC3R_BUILD_SANDBOXES   "Build development sandboxes" OFF)
@@ -96,6 +97,19 @@ endif()
 if (CMAKE_COMPILER_IS_GNUCC OR CMAKE_COMPILER_IS_GNUXX)
     # Adding -fext-numeric-literals to enable GCC extensions on definitions of quad float literals, which are required by Boost.
     add_compile_options(-fext-numeric-literals)
+
+    if (SLIC3R_SYNTAXONLY)
+        set(CMAKE_CXX_ARCHIVE_CREATE "true")
+        set(CMAKE_C_ARCHIVE_CREATE "true")
+        set(CMAKE_CXX_ARCHIVE_APPEND "true")
+        set(CMAKE_C_ARCHIVE_APPEND "true")
+        set(CMAKE_RANLIB "true")
+        set(CMAKE_C_LINK_EXECUTABLE "true")
+        set(CMAKE_CXX_LINK_EXECUTABLE "true")
+
+        set(CMAKE_C_COMPILE_OBJECT "<CMAKE_C_COMPILER> -fsyntax-only <DEFINES> <INCLUDES> <FLAGS> -c <SOURCE> && touch <OBJECT>")
+        set(CMAKE_CXX_COMPILE_OBJECT "<CMAKE_CXX_COMPILER> -fsyntax-only <DEFINES> <INCLUDES> <FLAGS> -c <SOURCE> && touch <OBJECT>")
+    endif ()
 endif()
 
 if ("${CMAKE_CXX_COMPILER_ID}" STREQUAL "GNU" OR "${CMAKE_CXX_COMPILER_ID}" STREQUAL "Clang")
diff --git a/src/libslic3r/CMakeLists.txt b/src/libslic3r/CMakeLists.txt
index 952b11ed0..3c3459f9d 100644
--- a/src/libslic3r/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/src/libslic3r/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -168,7 +168,9 @@ add_library(libslic3r STATIC
     SLA/SLASpatIndex.hpp
 )
 
-add_precompiled_header(libslic3r pchheader.hpp FORCEINCLUDE)
+if (NOT SLIC3R_SYNTAXONLY)
+    add_precompiled_header(libslic3r pchheader.hpp FORCEINCLUDE)
+endif ()
 
 target_compile_definitions(libslic3r PUBLIC -DUSE_TBB ${PNG_DEFINITIONS})
 target_include_directories(libslic3r PUBLIC ${CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR} ${LIBNEST2D_INCLUDES} ${PNG_INCLUDE_DIRS})
diff --git a/src/slic3r/CMakeLists.txt b/src/slic3r/CMakeLists.txt
index f4bea7d36..18d48f2a5 100644
--- a/src/slic3r/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/src/slic3r/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -126,4 +126,6 @@ add_library(libslic3r_gui STATIC
 )
 
 target_link_libraries(libslic3r_gui libslic3r avrdude)
-add_precompiled_header(libslic3r_gui pchheader.hpp FORCEINCLUDE)
+if (NOT SLIC3R_SYNTAXONLY)
+    add_precompiled_header(libslic3r_gui pchheader.hpp FORCEINCLUDE)
+endif ()