How to configure ExternalProject during main project configuration?

Question

The CMake\'s ExternalProject allows to define how to an external project is going to be downloaded, configured, built and installed. All whose steps are going to be performed at

Answer 1

Since CMake 3.14 and up wards, this how you use FetchContent

FetchContent_Declare(
  googletest
  GIT_REPOSITORY https://github.com/google/googletest.git
  GIT_TAG        release-1.8.0
)

FetchContent_MakeAvailable(googletest)

Then to build your test test/CMakeLists.txt

cmake_minimum_required(VERSION 3.15)
project(${PROJECT_NAME}_test)

# Tests for mu_project
file(GLOB_RECURSE TEST_SOURCES 
    ${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR}/*.hpp
    ${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR}/*.cpp
)

add_executable(${PROJECT_NAME}_test ${TEST_SOURCES})
target_link_libraries(${PROJECT_NAME}_test gtest gmock_main)

# Register the tests
add_test(NAME ${PROJECT_NAME}_test
         COMMAND ${PROJECT_NAME}_test)
enable_testing()

You're now good to go