googletest-starter-project

This demonstrates how to use Conan.io with cmake to create a multi-configuration Visual Studio 2017 solution file.

See also https://github.com/claremacrae/googletest-starter-project-separate-folders, which shows a much less good way of using Visual Studio with Conan and CMake.

Usage

To use:

1. Clone or download this repo
2. Make sure you have Visual Studio 2017 installed
3. Make sure you have CMake installed
4. Make sure you have Conan installed
5. Run build_and_test.bat
6. You can also open build-windows\googletest-starter-project.sln in Visual Studio, and build any of the configurations.

Things to note

• This uses conan's cmake_multi generator.
• You won't be able to step through the Google Test code in the debugger - Conan doesn't download source code, and many packages don't create .pdb files, or don't put them in a location where the Visual Studio linker finds them. See Issue #3 for more information.
• Don't be tempted to use the visual_studio_multi generator - it is for the case where you are hand-maintaining the contents of your solution files and projects, and just want Conan to manage 3rd-party dependencies.

TODO

• Adjust this so that it works for conan's cmake generator, for use on Linux, as well as for cmake_multi.
  • This was written up on the cpplang #Conan slack channel - I saved it, and just need to write up the notes here