diff --git a/CMakeLists.txt b/CMakeLists.txt
index 5ce6fea..e953830 100644
--- a/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -8,8 +8,10 @@ add_library(interval-tree INTERFACE)
 
 target_include_directories(interval-tree INTERFACE ./include)
 
-if(DRAW_EXAMPLES)
+if(INT_TREE_DRAW_EXAMPLES)
     add_subdirectory(cairo-wrap)
     add_subdirectory(drawings)
 endif()
-add_subdirectory(tests)
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+if (INT_TREE_ENABLE_TESTS)
+    add_subdirectory(tests)
+endif()
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diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index ca6e102..3d13302 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -49,7 +49,7 @@ int main()
 Having googletest (find here on github) installed / built is a requirement to run the tests.
 Create a build folder, navigate there, run cmake and build the tree-tests target.
 You might have to adapt the linker line for gtest, if you built it yourself and didn't install it into your system.
-If you want to generate the pretty drawings, install cairo, pull the submodule and pass DRAW_EXAMPLES=on to the cmake command line to generate a drawings/make_drawings executeable.
+If you want to generate the pretty drawings, install cairo, pull the submodule and pass INT_TREE_DRAW_EXAMPLES=on to the cmake command line to generate a drawings/make_drawings executeable.
 
 ## Free Functions
 ### interval<NumericT, Kind> make_safe_interval(NumericT border1, NumericT border2)
diff --git a/cmake/options.cmake b/cmake/options.cmake
index 8635efe..41e341e 100644
--- a/cmake/options.cmake
+++ b/cmake/options.cmake
@@ -1 +1,2 @@
-option(DRAW_EXAMPLES "Draws some examples in a subdirectory. run make_drawable.sh before this" OFF )
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+option(INT_TREE_DRAW_EXAMPLES "Draws some examples in a subdirectory. run make_drawable.sh before this" OFF)
+option(INT_TREE_ENABLE_TESTS "Enable tests?" ON)
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