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diff --git a/gtests/google_test/gtest/docs/Pkgconfig.md b/gtests/google_test/gtest/docs/Pkgconfig.md deleted file mode 100644 index 6dc067388..000000000 --- a/gtests/google_test/gtest/docs/Pkgconfig.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,141 +0,0 @@ -## Using GoogleTest from various build systems - -GoogleTest comes with pkg-config files that can be used to determine all -necessary flags for compiling and linking to GoogleTest (and GoogleMock). -Pkg-config is a standardised plain-text format containing - -* the includedir (-I) path -* necessary macro (-D) definitions -* further required flags (-pthread) -* the library (-L) path -* the library (-l) to link to - -All current build systems support pkg-config in one way or another. For all -examples here we assume you want to compile the sample -`samples/sample3_unittest.cc`. - -### CMake - -Using `pkg-config` in CMake is fairly easy: - -```cmake -cmake_minimum_required(VERSION 3.0) - -cmake_policy(SET CMP0048 NEW) -project(my_gtest_pkgconfig VERSION 0.0.1 LANGUAGES CXX) - -find_package(PkgConfig) -pkg_search_module(GTEST REQUIRED gtest_main) - -add_executable(testapp samples/sample3_unittest.cc) -target_link_libraries(testapp ${GTEST_LDFLAGS}) -target_compile_options(testapp PUBLIC ${GTEST_CFLAGS}) - -include(CTest) -add_test(first_and_only_test testapp) -``` - -It is generally recommended that you use `target_compile_options` + `_CFLAGS` -over `target_include_directories` + `_INCLUDE_DIRS` as the former includes not -just -I flags (GoogleTest might require a macro indicating to internal headers -that all libraries have been compiled with threading enabled. In addition, -GoogleTest might also require `-pthread` in the compiling step, and as such -splitting the pkg-config `Cflags` variable into include dirs and macros for -`target_compile_definitions()` might still miss this). The same recommendation -goes for using `_LDFLAGS` over the more commonplace `_LIBRARIES`, which happens -to discard `-L` flags and `-pthread`. - -### Autotools - -Finding GoogleTest in Autoconf and using it from Automake is also fairly easy: - -In your `configure.ac`: - -``` -AC_PREREQ([2.69]) -AC_INIT([my_gtest_pkgconfig], [0.0.1]) -AC_CONFIG_SRCDIR([samples/sample3_unittest.cc]) -AC_PROG_CXX - -PKG_CHECK_MODULES([GTEST], [gtest_main]) - -AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE([foreign subdir-objects]) -AC_CONFIG_FILES([Makefile]) -AC_OUTPUT -``` - -and in your `Makefile.am`: - -``` -check_PROGRAMS = testapp -TESTS = $(check_PROGRAMS) - -testapp_SOURCES = samples/sample3_unittest.cc -testapp_CXXFLAGS = $(GTEST_CFLAGS) -testapp_LDADD = $(GTEST_LIBS) -``` - -### Meson - -Meson natively uses pkgconfig to query dependencies: - -``` -project('my_gtest_pkgconfig', 'cpp', version : '0.0.1') - -gtest_dep = dependency('gtest_main') - -testapp = executable( - 'testapp', - files(['samples/sample3_unittest.cc']), - dependencies : gtest_dep, - install : false) - -test('first_and_only_test', testapp) -``` - -### Plain Makefiles - -Since `pkg-config` is a small Unix command-line utility, it can be used in -handwritten `Makefile`s too: - -```makefile -GTEST_CFLAGS = `pkg-config --cflags gtest_main` -GTEST_LIBS = `pkg-config --libs gtest_main` - -.PHONY: tests all - -tests: all - ./testapp - -all: testapp - -testapp: testapp.o - $(CXX) $(CXXFLAGS) $(LDFLAGS) $< -o $@ $(GTEST_LIBS) - -testapp.o: samples/sample3_unittest.cc - $(CXX) $(CPPFLAGS) $(CXXFLAGS) $< -c -o $@ $(GTEST_CFLAGS) -``` - -### Help! pkg-config can't find GoogleTest! - -Let's say you have a `CMakeLists.txt` along the lines of the one in this -tutorial and you try to run `cmake`. It is very possible that you get a failure -along the lines of: - -``` --- Checking for one of the modules 'gtest_main' -CMake Error at /usr/share/cmake/Modules/FindPkgConfig.cmake:640 (message): - None of the required 'gtest_main' found -``` - -These failures are common if you installed GoogleTest yourself and have not -sourced it from a distro or other package manager. If so, you need to tell -pkg-config where it can find the `.pc` files containing the information. Say you -installed GoogleTest to `/usr/local`, then it might be that the `.pc` files are -installed under `/usr/local/lib64/pkgconfig`. If you set - -``` -export PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/usr/local/lib64/pkgconfig -``` - -pkg-config will also try to look in `PKG_CONFIG_PATH` to find `gtest_main.pc`. |