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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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