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I am using this workflow: cmake_build.yaml
Here is my toplevel CMakeLists.txt:
cmake_minimum_required(VERSION 3.15)
project(
container
VERSION 0.1.0
DESCRIPTION "An extension to the standard container library in c++"
HOMEPAGE_URL ""
LANGUAGES CXX
)
add_executable(${PROJECT_NAME} src/main.cpp)
set_target_properties(
${PROJECT_NAME}
PROPERTIES
LINKER_LANGUAGE CXX
ARCHIVE_OUTPUT_DIRECTORY "${CMAKE_BINARY_DIR}/lib/${CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE}"
LIBRARY_OUTPUT_DIRECTORY "${CMAKE_BINARY_DIR}/lib/${CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE}"
RUNTIME_OUTPUT_DIRECTORY "${CMAKE_BINARY_DIR}/bin/${CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE}"
)
target_compile_features(${PROJECT_NAME} PUBLIC cxx_std_17)
target_include_directories(
${PROJECT_NAME}
PUBLIC
$<INSTALL_INTERFACE:include>
$<BUILD_INTERFACE:${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR}/include>
PRIVATE
${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR}/src
)
install(
DIRECTORY
include/${PROJECT_NAME_LOWERCASE}
DESTINATION
include
)
enable_testing()
add_subdirectory(test)
and test/CMakeLists.txt
cmake_minimum_required(VERSION 3.14)
project(my_project)
# GoogleTest requires at least C++14
set(CMAKE_CXX_STANDARD 17)
include(FetchContent)
FetchContent_Declare(
googletest
URL https://github.com/google/googletest/archive/03597a01ee50ed33e9dfd640b249b4be3799d395.zip
)
# For Windows: Prevent overriding the parent project's compiler/linker settings
set(gtest_force_shared_crt ON CACHE BOOL "" FORCE)
FetchContent_MakeAvailable(googletest)
add_executable(
hello_test
hello_test.cc
)
target_link_libraries(
hello_test
GTest::gtest_main
)
include(GoogleTest)
gtest_discover_tests(hello_test)
I am using the example from gtest docs:
test/hello_test.cc:
#include <gtest/gtest.h>
TEST(HelloTest, BasicAssertions) {
// Expect two strings not to be equal.
EXPECT_STRNE("hello", "world");
// Expect equality.
EXPECT_EQ(7 * 6, 42);
}
int main(int argc, char **argv)
{
testing::InitGoogleTest(&argc, argv);
return RUN_ALL_TESTS();
}
It builds fine on Windows MSVC, Macos Clang, Linux GCC, but fails using Mingw GCC, here is error shown:
FAILED: test/hello_test.exe test/hello_test[1]_tests.cmake D:/a/tsst/tsst/build/test/hello_test[1]_tests.cmake
cmd.exe /C "cd . && C:\ProgramData\chocolatey\bin\g++.exe -O3 -DNDEBUG test/CMakeFiles/hello_test.dir/hello_test.cc.obj -o test\hello_test.exe -Wl,--out-implib,test\libhello_test.dll.a -Wl,--major-image-version,0,--minor-image-version,0 lib/libgtest_main.a lib/libgtest.a -lkernel32 -luser32 -lgdi32 -lwinspool -lshell32 -lole32 -loleaut32 -luuid -lcomdlg32 -ladvapi32 && cmd.exe /C "cd /D D:\a\tsst\tsst\build\test && D:\a\tsst\tsst\cmake-3.24.3-windows-x86_64\bin\cmake.exe -D TEST_TARGET=hello_test -D TEST_EXECUTABLE=D:/a/tsst/tsst/build/test/hello_test.exe -D TEST_EXECUTOR= -D TEST_WORKING_DIR=D:/a/tsst/tsst/build/test -D TEST_EXTRA_ARGS= -D TEST_PROPERTIES= -D TEST_PREFIX= -D TEST_SUFFIX= -D TEST_FILTER= -D NO_PRETTY_TYPES=FALSE -D NO_PRETTY_VALUES=FALSE -D TEST_LIST=hello_test_TESTS -D CTEST_FILE=D:/a/tsst/tsst/build/test/hello_test[1]_tests.cmake -D TEST_DISCOVERY_TIMEOUT=5 -D TEST_XML_OUTPUT_DIR= -P D:/a/tsst/tsst/cmake-3.24.3-windows-x86_64/share/cmake-3.24/Modules/GoogleTestAddTests.cmake""
CMake Error at D:/a/tsst/tsst/cmake-3.24.3-windows-x86_64/share/cmake-3.24/Modules/GoogleTestAddTests.cmake:112 (message):
Error running test executable.
Path: 'D:/a/tsst/tsst/build/test/hello_test.exe'
Result: Exit code 0xc0000139
Output:
Call Stack (most recent call first):
D:/a/tsst/tsst/cmake-3.24.3-windows-x86_64/share/cmake-3.24/Modules/GoogleTestAddTests.cmake:225 (gtest_discover_tests_impl)
ninja: build stopped: subcommand failed.
Build works fine without building gtest, and it fails when building test executable with gtest