Add `--dry-run` flag to validate input files without running simulation #1091

Job	Run time
Build and test (linux, ubuntu-24.04, gcc-default, true)	14m 23s
Build and test (linux, ubuntu-24.04, gcc-latest, false)	16m 40s
Build and test (windows, windows-2022, msvc, true)	7m 34s
	38m 37s

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