https://github.com/claremacrae/googletest-starter-project

Place to experiment with googletest and conan builds
https://github.com/claremacrae/googletest-starter-project

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Place to experiment with googletest and conan builds

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/claremacrae/googletest-starter-project
• Owner: claremacrae
• License: mit
• Created: 2018-02-25T13:05:24.000Z (almost 7 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2018-03-06T07:22:45.000Z (almost 7 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-10-31T17:12:28.186Z (3 months ago)
• Language: CMake
• Homepage:
• Size: 18.6 KB
• Stars: 0
• Watchers: 3
• Forks: 0
• Open Issues: 1
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.md
  • License: LICENSE

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README

        
# googletest-starter-project

This demonstrates how to use [Conan.io](http://docs.conan.io/en/latest/introduction.html) with [cmake](https://cmake.org/documentation/) to create a multi-configuration Visual Studio 2017 solution file.

See also https://github.com/claremacrae/googletest-starter-project-separate-folders, which shows a much less good way of using Visual Studio with Conan and CMake.

## Usage

To use:

1. Clone or download this repo

1. Make sure you have Visual Studio 2017 installed

1. Make sure you have CMake installed

1. Make sure you have Conan installed

1. Run `build_and_test.bat`

1. You can also open `build-windows\googletest-starter-project.sln` in Visual Studio, and build any of the configurations.

## Things to note

* This uses conan's [`cmake_multi`](http://docs.conan.io/en/latest/reference/generators/cmakemulti.html) generator.

* You won't be able to step through the Google Test code in the debugger - Conan doesn't download source code, and many packages don't create .pdb files, or don't put them in a location where the Visual Studio linker finds them. See [Issue #3](https://github.com/claremacrae/googletest-starter-project/issues/3) for more information.

* Don't be tempted to use the [`visual_studio_multi`](http://docs.conan.io/en/latest/reference/generators/visualstudiomulti.html) generator - it is for the case where you are hand-maintaining the contents of your solution files and projects, and just want Conan to manage 3rd-party dependencies.

## TODO

* Adjust this so that it works for conan's `cmake` generator, for use on Linux, as well as for `cmake_multi`.

  * This was written up on the cpplang #Conan slack channel - I saved it, and just need to write up the notes here