Google test is a framework for writing C++ unit tests. In this short post, I have explained how to set it up in Ubuntu.

Start by installing the gtest development package:

sudo apt-get install libgtest-dev

Note that this package only install source files. You have to compile the code yourself to create the necessary library files. These source files should be located at /usr/src/gtest. Browse to this folder and use cmake to compile the library:

sudo apt-get install cmake # install cmake

cd /usr/src/gtest

sudo cmake CMakeLists.txt

sudo make

#copy or symlink libgtest.a and libgtest_main.a to your /usr/lib folder

sudo cp *.a /usr/lib

Above steps can be ignored for new cmake file

Compile and run the tests:

cmake CMakeLists.txt

make

./ParameterizedTestExamples