How to properly setup googleTest on OS X aside from XCode

Question

How do I setup gTest, so that I can link aganist the library? I will code in vim, so I just want to install the libraries, unlike the XCode setup. Goal is to be able to link

Answer 1

It's adviced that you link statically. There's no secret. Being a bit offtopic, I use CMake in my projects, which I recommend, and here (https://github.com/oblitum/operations) I have setup a very basic skeleton project that links to gmock and gtest (it's also adviced by google that you use the same gtest from gmock, when you use gmock). In the external folder reside the external CMake files that actually import gtest and gmock through ExternalProject_Add. In the sample, I'm setting the URL as a file path in my system where gmock and gtest are downloaded, but, if you check CMake ExternalProject_Add docs you can see that download urls, online repository urls are also available, which can allow your build to download gtest and gmock, and cache it, automatically.