test-install.md

Installing Google Test

Mac

1. Before installation, ensure that CMake is installed on your machine. We use brew to install Mac packages.

$ brew install cmake

2. Download the gtest file from the Google Test repo and unzip it. (You can view all of the repo's releases here.)

$ curl -# -L -o "googletest-release-1.8.0.zip" "https://github.com/google/googletest/archive/release-1.8.0.zip"
$ unzip googletest-release-1.8.0.zip

3. Complete the installation

$ cd googletest-release-1.8.0/googletest/
$ mkdir bld
$ cd bld
$ cmake ..
$ make
$ cp -a ../include/gtest /usr/local/include
$ cp -a *.a /usr/local/lib

4. Clean up by deleting the googletest-release-1.8.0 folder and googletest-release-1.8.0.zip

$ # Assuming you're still in the bld directory
$ cd ../../..
$ rm -r googletest-release-1.8.0
$ rm googletest-release-1.8.0.zip

Instructions courtesy of Zhiwei on StackOverflow.