Is there any way to compile without executing?

Is there any way to compile a program but not executing it afterwards,
in order to check just the compilation? I have read the command help and
the man page but found nothing.  There's an `-E` option to run only the
preprocessor, but that's all.

Context: I have 19 little programs (between 50 and 500 LOC) I have
written using Pike 8.0;  after installing 9.0 it occurred to me I could
check possible compilation errors in a simple shell loop, instead of
executing and manually exiting each program; but that's not a big deal
anyways.

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