Issue installing GoogleTest on OS X (Sierra)

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I am try to install GoogleTest for testing a C++ project on macOS 10.12.

I have retrieved the latest source, release-1.8.0 and am having issues building the library. I have tried the following:

$ cd googletest-release-1.8.0 
$ mkdir build
$ cd build
$ cmake ..
$ make

There are no errors, however the lib files don't appear to be created anywhere that I can find.

What am I doing wrong here? I don't know too much about CMake.

score 0 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 11:54

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I just tried this on OS X; after the steps you listed, there's a subdirectory under build/ called googlemock/ containing libgmock.a and gtest/libgtest.a.

The headers are in the main folder under googletest/include/gtest/.

Alternatively, there's maybe some guidance in this older answer

edited May 23 '17 at 11:54

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answered Apr 26 '17 at 23:32

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Perfect, thanks, I didn't think to look for the gtest files in the gmock directory. – arbass Apr 27 '17 at 01:15

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Apr 26 '17 at 23:44

You could use External Project like this:

<<CMakeLists.txt>>

cmake_minimum_required(VERSION 2.6)
project(myproject)

# Enable ExternalProject CMake module
include(ExternalProject)


# Download and install GoogleTest
ExternalProject_Add(
    gtest
    URL https://github.com/google/googletest/archive/release-1.8.0.zip
    PREFIX include/gtest
    # Disable install step
    INSTALL_COMMAND ""
)

# Create a libgtest target to be used as a dependency by test programs
add_library(libgtest IMPORTED STATIC GLOBAL)
add_dependencies(libgtest gtest)

# Set gtest properties
ExternalProject_Get_Property(gtest source_dir binary_dir)
set_target_properties(libgtest PROPERTIES
    IMPORTED_LOCATION "${binary_dir}/googlemock/gtest/libgtest.a"
    IMPORTED_LINK_INTERFACE_LIBRARIES "${CMAKE_THREAD_LIBS_INIT}"
#   "INTERFACE_INCLUDE_DIRECTORIES" "${source_dir}/include"
)
# I couldn't make it work with INTERFACE_INCLUDE_DIRECTORIES
set(GTEST_LIB "${source_dir}/googletest/include")

# Create a libgmock target to be used as a dependency by test programs
add_library(libgmock IMPORTED STATIC GLOBAL)
add_dependencies(libgmock gmock)

include_directories(${GTEST_LIB} ${GMOCK_LIB})
add_executable(test_exec testmain.cpp someotherfile.cpp)
target_link_libraries(test_exec libgtest libgmock)

Should work.

Issue installing GoogleTest on OS X (Sierra)

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