error during making GTest

Question

I was trying to set up GTest environment on my Ubuntu machine. but while making the GTest to get the library, i get the following error...

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Answer 1

Have you seen Erik Smistad's excellent tutorial on how to get started w/ gtest on Ubuntu? I've just tried it on (K)ubuntu 12.04 and it worked perfectly. In short, what you need to do is

sudo apt-get install cmake libgtest-dev
cd /usr/src/gtest
sudo cmake CMakeLists.txt
sudo make
sudo cp *.a /usr/lib

If you feel uncomfortable running make and cmake as root, you'd have to copy /usr/src/gtest to a directory writable by your user. In the tutorial, Erik also provides a sample test with a CMakeLists.txt to build it.