At first, I installed gtest by command: sudo apt-get install libgtest-dev .
Everything seemed well.
But when doing a test for my example.cpp by gtest, I got tons of error:
undefined reference to `testing::internal: XXXX'
I guessed that I should give some arguments to g++ like -Ldir -ldir.
But failure still occurs.
Noticed that all errors were linker error.
So I check if there were sth wrong with the libs and headers of gtest.
I went to check the .h in the /usr/include, everything still looked right.
But I found nothing about libgtest in /usr/lib, /lib and /usr/local/lib.
Tthe following site told me why no lib were installed in my machine.
http://askubuntu.com/questions/145887
And the comprehensive explanation could be found in google test FAQ.
http://code.google.com/p/googletest/wiki/FAQ
Why is it not recommended to install a pre-compiled copy of Google test?
Everything seemed well.
But when doing a test for my example.cpp by gtest, I got tons of error:
undefined reference to `testing::internal: XXXX'
I guessed that I should give some arguments to g++ like -Ldir -ldir.
But failure still occurs.
Noticed that all errors were linker error.
So I check if there were sth wrong with the libs and headers of gtest.
I went to check the .h in the /usr/include, everything still looked right.
But I found nothing about libgtest in /usr/lib, /lib and /usr/local/lib.
Tthe following site told me why no lib were installed in my machine.
http://askubuntu.com/questions/145887
And the comprehensive explanation could be found in google test FAQ.
http://code.google.com/p/googletest/wiki/FAQ
Why is it not recommended to install a pre-compiled copy of Google test?
So I had two choices:
Build a static lib from the souce file by myself.
Or compile Google test together with your project.
To build the static lib:cd /tmp
mkdir .build
cd .build
sudo cmake -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=RELEASE /usr/src/gtest/
sudo make
sudo mv libg* /usr/lib/
After building, libgtest.a and libgtest_main.a had been in /usr/lib.
Tried compiling my test.cpp by command "g++ test.cpp -lgtest" again.
Errors still occurred but they were new types of errors .
undefined reference to `pthread_XXXX`
Changed the compilation command to "g++ test.cpp -lgtest -lpthread" and
Succeeded!!!
But still I don't know how to use gtest without the pre-compiled lib.
reference:
http://www.thebigblob.com/getting-started-with-google-test-on-ubuntu/
http://askubuntu.com/questions/145887
http://code.google.com/p/googletest/wiki/FAQ