Googletest: Absolutely a Waste of Time

[markfrazzetto]

Stay away from this tool set. I tried installing to a local directory, the poor design of the headers produced countless compile errors. I tried installing from my linux distro repo and the libraries were not included in the install. I tried doing a sudo make install and used pkg-config to supply the compile and link parameters, and got countless link errors. I am no newb, I have written and compiled so many programs under Linux and Unix, and googlemock\googletest have wasted my time more than any other library I have tried to use.
You basically have to be a CMake guru to use these tools. Stay away unless you have considerable devop experience.

[tanzislam]

Have you tried git clone-ing from this GitHub repo? The distro repo may have problems of its own.

I haven't had any problems building googletest (using the makefile in googletest/make/Makefile) with:

• GCC (under MinGW-w64 on Windows 7, WSL on Windows 10, and Ubuntu 16.04 and above)
• Clang (running as g++ inside macOS 10.2 and 10.3)

I had slight problems building on the following platforms, but eventually overcame them. You can see how in the Wiki pages of my project:

• Visual Studio Community 2015 and 2017
• Embarcadero C++Builder Starter 10.1 (Berlin) and 10.2 (Tokyo)

[tesch1]

Note to self: don't invite Mark to the next party.

[gennadiycivil]

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