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1 Google C++ Testing Framework | |
2 ============================ | |
3 http://code.google.com/p/googletest/ | |
4 | |
5 Overview | |
6 -------- | |
7 Google's framework for writing C++ tests on a variety of platforms (Linux, Mac | |
8 OS X, Windows, Windows CE, Symbian, and etc). Based on the xUnit architecture. | |
9 Supports automatic test discovery, a rich set of assertions, user-defined | |
10 assertions, death tests, fatal and non-fatal failures, various options for | |
11 running the tests, and XML test report generation. | |
12 | |
13 Please see the project page above for more information as well as mailing lists | |
14 for questions, discussions, and development. There is also an IRC channel on | |
15 OFTC (irc.oftc.net) #gtest available. Please join us! | |
16 | |
17 Requirements | |
18 ------------ | |
19 Google Test is designed to have fairly minimal requirements to build | |
20 and use with your projects, but there are some. Currently, we support | |
21 building Google Test on Linux, Windows, Mac OS X, and Cygwin. We will | |
22 also make our best effort to support other platforms (e.g. Solaris and | |
23 IBM z/OS). However, since core members of the Google Test project | |
24 have no access to them, Google Test may have outstanding issues on | |
25 these platforms. If you notice any problems on your platform, please | |
26 notify googletestframework@googlegroups.com (patches for fixing them | |
27 are even more welcome!). | |
28 | |
29 ### Linux Requirements ### | |
30 These are the base requirements to build and use Google Test from a source | |
31 package (as described below): | |
32 * GNU-compatible Make or "gmake" | |
33 * POSIX-standard shell | |
34 * POSIX(-2) Regular Expressions (regex.h) | |
35 * A C++98 standards compliant compiler | |
36 | |
37 Furthermore, if you are building Google Test from a VCS Checkout (also | |
38 described below), there are further requirements: | |
39 * Automake version 1.9 or newer | |
40 * Autoconf version 2.59 or newer | |
41 * Libtool / Libtoolize | |
42 * Python version 2.4 or newer | |
43 | |
44 ### Windows Requirements ### | |
45 * Microsoft Visual Studio 7.1 or newer | |
46 | |
47 ### Cygwin Requirements ### | |
48 * Cygwin 1.5.25-14 or newer | |
49 | |
50 ### Mac OS X Requirements ### | |
51 * Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger or newer | |
52 * Developer Tools Installed | |
53 * Optional: Xcode 2.5 or later for univeral-binary framework; see note below. | |
54 | |
55 Getting the Source | |
56 ------------------ | |
57 There are two primary ways of getting Google Test's source code: you can | |
58 download a source release in your preferred archive format, or directly check | |
59 out the source from a Version Control System (VCS, we use Google Code's | |
60 Subversion hosting). The VCS checkout requires a few extra steps and some extra | |
61 software packages on your system, but lets you track development, and make | |
62 patches to contribute much more easily, so we highly encourage it. | |
63 | |
64 ### VCS Checkout: ### | |
65 The first step is to select whether you want to check out the main line of | |
66 development on Google Test, or one of the released branches. The former will be | |
67 much more active and have the latest features, but the latter provides much | |
68 more stability and predictability. Choose whichever fits your needs best, and | |
69 proceed with the following Subversion commands: | |
70 | |
71 svn checkout http://googletest.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/ gtest-svn | |
72 | |
73 or for a release version X.Y.*'s branch: | |
74 | |
75 svn checkout http://googletest.googlecode.com/svn/branches/release-X.Y/ \ | |
76 gtest-X.Y-svn | |
77 | |
78 Next you will need to prepare the GNU Autotools build system, if you | |
79 are using Linux, Mac OS X, or Cygwin. Enter the target directory of | |
80 the checkout command you used ('gtest-svn' or 'gtest-X.Y-svn' above) | |
81 and proceed with the following command: | |
82 | |
83 autoreconf -fvi | |
84 | |
85 Once you have completed this step, you are ready to build the library. Note | |
86 that you should only need to complete this step once. The subsequent `make' | |
87 invocations will automatically re-generate the bits of the build system that | |
88 need to be changed. | |
89 | |
90 If your system uses older versions of the autotools, the above command will | |
91 fail. You may need to explicitly specify a version to use. For instance, if you | |
92 have both GNU Automake 1.4 and 1.9 installed and `automake' would invoke the | |
93 1.4, use instead: | |
94 | |
95 AUTOMAKE=automake-1.9 ACLOCAL=aclocal-1.9 autoreconf -fvi | |
96 | |
97 Make sure you're using the same version of automake and aclocal. | |
98 | |
99 ### Source Package: ### | |
100 Google Test is also released in source packages which can be downloaded from | |
101 its Google Code download page[1]. Several different archive formats are | |
102 provided, but the only difference is the tools used to manipulate them, and the | |
103 size of the resulting file. Download whichever you are most comfortable with. | |
104 | |
105 [1] Google Test Downloads: http://code.google.com/p/googletest/downloads/list | |
106 | |
107 Once downloaded expand the archive using whichever tools you prefer for that | |
108 type. This will always result in a new directory with the name "gtest-X.Y.Z" | |
109 which contains all of the source code. Here are some examples in Linux: | |
110 | |
111 tar -xvzf gtest-X.Y.Z.tar.gz | |
112 tar -xvjf gtest-X.Y.Z.tar.bz2 | |
113 unzip gtest-X.Y.Z.zip | |
114 | |
115 Choosing a TR1 Tuple Library | |
116 ---------------------------- | |
117 Some Google Test features require the C++ Technical Report 1 (TR1) | |
118 tuple library, which is not yet widely available with all compilers. | |
119 The good news is that Google Test implements a subset of TR1 tuple | |
120 that's enough for its own need, and will automatically use this when | |
121 the compiler doesn't provide TR1 tuple. | |
122 | |
123 Usually you don't need to care about which tuple library Google Test | |
124 uses. However, if your project already uses TR1 tuple, you need to | |
125 tell Google Test to use the same TR1 tuple library the rest of your | |
126 project uses (this requirement is new in Google Test 1.4.0, so you may | |
127 need to take care of it when upgrading from an earlier version), or | |
128 the two tuple implementations will clash. To do that, add | |
129 | |
130 -DGTEST_USE_OWN_TR1_TUPLE=0 | |
131 | |
132 to the compiler flags while compiling Google Test and your tests. | |
133 | |
134 If you don't want Google Test to use tuple at all, add | |
135 | |
136 -DGTEST_HAS_TR1_TUPLE=0 | |
137 | |
138 to the compiler flags. All features using tuple will be disabled in | |
139 this mode. | |
140 | |
141 Building the Source | |
142 ------------------- | |
143 ### Linux, Mac OS X (without Xcode), and Cygwin ### | |
144 There are two primary options for building the source at this point: build it | |
145 inside the source code tree, or in a separate directory. We recommend building | |
146 in a separate directory as that tends to produce both more consistent results | |
147 and be easier to clean up should anything go wrong, but both patterns are | |
148 supported. The only hard restriction is that while the build directory can be | |
149 a subdirectory of the source directory, the opposite is not possible and will | |
150 result in errors. Once you have selected where you wish to build Google Test, | |
151 create the directory if necessary, and enter it. The following steps apply for | |
152 either approach by simply substituting the shell variable SRCDIR with "." for | |
153 building inside the source directory, and the relative path to the source | |
154 directory otherwise. | |
155 | |
156 ${SRCDIR}/configure # Standard GNU configure script, --help for more info | |
157 make # Standard makefile following GNU conventions | |
158 make check # Builds and runs all tests - all should pass | |
159 | |
160 Other programs will only be able to use Google Test's functionality if you | |
161 install it in a location which they can access, in Linux this is typically | |
162 under '/usr/local'. The following command will install all of the Google Test | |
163 libraries, public headers, and utilities necessary for other programs and | |
164 libraries to leverage it: | |
165 | |
166 sudo make install # Not necessary, but allows use by other programs | |
167 | |
168 Should you need to remove Google Test from your system after having installed | |
169 it, run the following command, and it will back out its changes. However, note | |
170 carefully that you must run this command on the *same* Google Test build that | |
171 you ran the install from, or the results are not predictable. If you install | |
172 Google Test on your system, and are working from a VCS checkout, make sure you | |
173 run this *before* updating your checkout of the source in order to uninstall | |
174 the same version which you installed. | |
175 | |
176 sudo make uninstall # Must be run against the exact same build as "install" | |
177 | |
178 Your project can build against Google Test simply by leveraging the | |
179 'gtest-config' script. This script can be invoked directly out of the 'scripts' | |
180 subdirectory of the build tree, and it will be installed in the binary | |
181 directory specified during the 'configure'. Here are some examples of its use, | |
182 see 'gtest-config --help' for more detailed information. | |
183 | |
184 gtest-config --min-version=1.0 || echo "Insufficient Google Test version." | |
185 | |
186 g++ $(gtest-config --cppflags --cxxflags) -o foo.o -c foo.cpp | |
187 g++ $(gtest-config --ldflags --libs) -o foo foo.o | |
188 | |
189 # When using a built but not installed Google Test: | |
190 g++ $(../../my_gtest_build/scripts/gtest-config ...) ... | |
191 | |
192 ### Windows ### | |
193 The msvc\ folder contains two solutions with Visual C++ projects. Open the | |
194 gtest.sln or gtest-md.sln file using Visual Studio, and you are ready to | |
195 build Google Test the same way you build any Visual Studio project. Files | |
196 that have names ending with -md use DLL versions of Microsoft runtime | |
197 libraries (the /MD or the /MDd compiler option). Files without that suffix | |
198 use static versions of the runtime libraries (the /MT or the /MTd option). | |
199 Please note that one must use the same option to compile both gtest and his | |
200 test code. If you use Visual Studio 2005 or above, we recommend the -md | |
201 version as /MD is the default for new projects in these versions of Visual | |
202 Studio. | |
203 | |
204 ### Mac OS X (universal-binary framework) ### | |
205 Open the gtest.xcodeproj in the xcode/ folder using Xcode. Build the "gtest" | |
206 target. The universal binary framework will end up in your selected build | |
207 directory (selected in the Xcode "Preferences..." -> "Building" pane and | |
208 defaults to xcode/build). Alternatively, at the command line, enter: | |
209 | |
210 xcodebuild | |
211 | |
212 This will build the "Release" configuration of gtest.framework in your | |
213 default build location. See the "xcodebuild" man page for more information about | |
214 building different configurations and building in different locations. | |
215 | |
216 To test the gtest.framework in Xcode, change the active target to "Check" and | |
217 then build. This target builds all of the tests and then runs them. Don't worry | |
218 if you see some errors. Xcode reports all test failures (even the intentional | |
219 ones) as errors. However, you should see a "Build succeeded" message at the end | |
220 of the build log. To run all of the tests from the command line, enter: | |
221 | |
222 xcodebuild -target Check | |
223 | |
224 Installation with xcodebuild requires specifying an installation desitination | |
225 directory, known as the DSTROOT. Three items will be installed when using | |
226 xcodebuild: | |
227 | |
228 $DSTROOT/Library/Frameworks/gtest.framework | |
229 $DSTROOT/usr/local/lib/libgtest.a | |
230 $DSTROOT/usr/local/lib/libgtest_main.a | |
231 | |
232 You specify the installation directory on the command line with the other | |
233 xcodebuild options. Here's how you would install in a user-visible location: | |
234 | |
235 xcodebuild install DSTROOT=~ | |
236 | |
237 To perform a system-wide inistall, escalate to an administrator and specify | |
238 the file system root as the DSTROOT: | |
239 | |
240 sudo xcodebuild install DSTROOT=/ | |
241 | |
242 To uninstall gtest.framework via the command line, you need to delete the three | |
243 items listed above. Remember to escalate to an administrator if deleting these | |
244 from the system-wide location using the commands listed below: | |
245 | |
246 sudo rm -r /Library/Frameworks/gtest.framework | |
247 sudo rm /usr/local/lib/libgtest.a | |
248 sudo rm /usr/local/lib/libgtest_main.a | |
249 | |
250 It is also possible to build and execute individual tests within Xcode. Each | |
251 test has its own Xcode "Target" and Xcode "Executable". To build any of the | |
252 tests, change the active target and the active executable to the test of | |
253 interest and then build and run. | |
254 | |
255 Individual tests can be built from the command line using: | |
256 | |
257 xcodebuild -target <test_name> | |
258 | |
259 These tests can be executed from the command line by moving to the build | |
260 directory and then (in bash) | |
261 | |
262 export DYLD_FRAMEWORK_PATH=`pwd` | |
263 ./<test_name> # (e.g. ./gtest_unittest) | |
264 | |
265 To use gtest.framework for your own tests, first, install the framework using | |
266 the steps described above. Then add it to your Xcode project by selecting | |
267 Project->Add to Project... from the main menu. Next, add libgtest_main.a from | |
268 gtest.framework/Resources directory using the same menu command. Finally, | |
269 create a new executable target and add gtest.framework and libgtest_main.a to | |
270 the "Link Binary With Libraries" build phase. | |
271 | |
272 ### Using GNU Make ### | |
273 The make/ directory contains a Makefile that you can use to build | |
274 Google Test on systems where GNU make is available (e.g. Linux, Mac OS | |
275 X, and Cygwin). It doesn't try to build Google Test's own tests. | |
276 Instead, it just builds the Google Test library and a sample test. | |
277 You can use it as a starting point for your own Makefile. | |
278 | |
279 If the default settings are correct for your environment, the | |
280 following commands should succeed: | |
281 | |
282 cd ${SRCDIR}/make | |
283 make | |
284 ./sample1_unittest | |
285 | |
286 If you see errors, try to tweak the contents of make/Makefile to make | |
287 them go away. There are instructions in make/Makefile on how to do | |
288 it. | |
289 | |
290 ### Using Your Own Build System ### | |
291 If none of the build solutions we provide works for you, or if you | |
292 prefer your own build system, you just need to compile | |
293 src/gtest-all.cc into a library and link your tests with it. Assuming | |
294 a Linux-like system and gcc, something like the following will do: | |
295 | |
296 cd ${SRCDIR} | |
297 g++ -I. -I./include -c src/gtest-all.cc | |
298 ar -rv libgtest.a gtest-all.o | |
299 g++ -I. -I./include path/to/your_test.cc libgtest.a -o your_test | |
300 | |
301 Regenerating Source Files | |
302 ------------------------- | |
303 Some of Google Test's source files are generated from templates (not | |
304 in the C++ sense) using a script. A template file is named FOO.pump, | |
305 where FOO is the name of the file it will generate. For example, the | |
306 file include/gtest/internal/gtest-type-util.h.pump is used to generate | |
307 gtest-type-util.h in the same directory. | |
308 | |
309 Normally you don't need to worry about regenerating the source files, | |
310 unless you need to modify them (e.g. if you are working on a patch for | |
311 Google Test). In that case, you should modify the corresponding .pump | |
312 files instead and run the 'pump' script (for Pump is Useful for Meta | |
313 Programming) to regenerate them. We are still working on releasing | |
314 the script and its documentation. If you need it now, please email | |
315 googletestframework@googlegroups.com such that we know to make it | |
316 happen sooner. | |
317 | |
318 Happy testing! | |
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