If `-Dprotobuf_USE_EXTERNAL_GTEST=ON` is passed to CMake, it will use an external Google Test copy (i.e. by calling `find_package(GTest REQUIRED)`) rather than the one provided as a submodule.
This makes sense for larger projects that might already include Google Test and want to use a more standard CMake approach.
Also updated build instructions with this information, and more idiomatic usage.
Co-authored-by: Adam Cozzette <acozzette@google.com>
Convenience feature: enable users to test via the familiar `ctest` command rather than making the `check` target.
They would be able to use the familiar CMake pattern:
```
cmake -S source/protobuf -B build/protobuf ...
cmake --build build/protobuf
ctest --test-dir build/protobuf
cmake --install build/protobuf
```
This is a follow-up to 9f447fc9d3da93da29b8301f1a8ca57b1ea812d7
Add implementations of open(2), mkdir(2), stat(2),
etc. that support long paths under Windows (paths
longer than MAX_PATH in <windows.h>, which is 260
characters).
The implementations are in a separate namespace
(google::protobuf::internal::win32), so they won't
collide with the standard implementations in
<io.h>, but after importing them with `using` they
can be drop-in replacements.
Fixes https://github.com/bazelbuild/bazel/issues/2634
Fixes https://github.com/google/protobuf/issues/2891
The check target did not depend on the test_plugin binary, so this would
cause "make check" to fail at times because of the absence of
test_plugin. This change adds a dependency on test_plugin so that it
will always get built before the tests are executed.
A series of improvements:
- Improved Protobuf module compatibility (disabled by default);
- Hide advanced settings;
- Added build tree configuration;
- Added build of examples.
Florin Crișan
Stephen Kennedy
Adam Cozzette
David L. Jones
Joshua Haberman
Bo Yang
listonjesse
Yannic Bonenberger
Hao Nguyen
Feng Xiao
Roman Popov
Ivan Shynkarenka
Carlos O'Ryan
Jisi Liu
Laszlo Csomor
Byron Yi
Jie Luo
Jisi Liu
Konstantin Podsvirov