How to print compile and link commands in CMake?

If you want the always compilation commands to be printed, put the following line in CMakeLists.txt :

SET(CMAKE_VERBOSE_MAKEFILE ON)

If you want to print the compilation commands only a few times, after running CMake, run make as follows:

make VERBOSE=1

I do not know if I understand the question well, but if you want to print a message like "Generating Objects" or "linking libraries" just put it after each rule

all: dependencia1 dependencia2 ....
    @echo "Gerando executavel"

and it will print this string when you are performing this rule.