## Are you a Googler?
-If you are a Googler, please make an attempt to submit an internal change rather
-than a GitHub Pull Request. If you are not able to submit an internal change a
+If you are a Googler, please make an attempt to submit an internal contribution
+rather than a GitHub Pull Request. If you are not able to submit internally, a
PR is acceptable as an alternative.
## Contributing A Patch
1. Submit an issue describing your proposed change to the
- [issue tracker](https://github.com/google/googletest).
+ [issue tracker](https://github.com/google/googletest/issues).
2. Please don't mix more than one logical change per submittal, because it
makes the history hard to follow. If you want to make a change that doesn't
have a corresponding issue in the issue tracker, please create one.
This ensures that work isn't being duplicated and communicating your plan
early also generally leads to better patches.
4. If your proposed change is accepted, and you haven't already done so, sign a
- Contributor License Agreement (see details above).
+ Contributor License Agreement
+ ([see details above](#contributor-license-agreements)).
5. Fork the desired repo, develop and test your code changes.
6. Ensure that your code adheres to the existing style in the sample to which
you are contributing.
[google-styleguide](https://github.com/google/styleguide) project. All patches
will be expected to conform to the style outlined
[here](https://google.github.io/styleguide/cppguide.html). Use
-[.clang-format](https://github.com/google/googletest/blob/master/.clang-format)
-to check your formatting
+[.clang-format](https://github.com/google/googletest/blob/main/.clang-format) to
+check your formatting.
## Requirements for Contributors
If you plan to contribute a patch, you need to build Google Test, Google Mock,
and their own tests from a git checkout, which has further requirements:
-* [Python](https://www.python.org/) v2.3 or newer (for running some of the
+* [Python](https://www.python.org/) v3.6 or newer (for running some of the
tests and re-generating certain source files from templates)
-* [CMake](https://cmake.org/) v2.6.4 or newer
+* [CMake](https://cmake.org/) v2.8.12 or newer
## Developing Google Test and Google Mock
functionality, you'll want to compile and run Google Test and GoogleMock's own
tests. For that you can use CMake:
- mkdir mybuild
- cd mybuild
- cmake -Dgtest_build_tests=ON -Dgmock_build_tests=ON ${GTEST_REPO_DIR}
+```
+mkdir mybuild
+cd mybuild
+cmake -Dgtest_build_tests=ON -Dgmock_build_tests=ON ${GTEST_REPO_DIR}
+```
To choose between building only Google Test or Google Mock, you may modify your
cmake command to be one of each
- cmake -Dgtest_build_tests=ON ${GTEST_DIR} # sets up Google Test tests
- cmake -Dgmock_build_tests=ON ${GMOCK_DIR} # sets up Google Mock tests
+```
+cmake -Dgtest_build_tests=ON ${GTEST_DIR} # sets up Google Test tests
+cmake -Dgmock_build_tests=ON ${GMOCK_DIR} # sets up Google Mock tests
+```
Make sure you have Python installed, as some of Google Test's tests are written
in Python. If the cmake command complains about not being able to find Python
(`Could NOT find PythonInterp (missing: PYTHON_EXECUTABLE)`), try telling it
explicitly where your Python executable can be found:
- cmake -DPYTHON_EXECUTABLE=path/to/python ...
+```
+cmake -DPYTHON_EXECUTABLE=path/to/python ...
+```
Next, you can build Google Test and / or Google Mock and all desired tests. On
\*nix, this is usually done by
- make
+```
+make
+```
To run the tests, do
- make test
+```
+make test
+```
All tests should pass.
-
-### Regenerating Source Files
-
-Some of Google Test's source files are generated from templates (not in the C++
-sense) using a script. For example, the file
-include/gtest/internal/gtest-type-util.h.pump is used to generate
-gtest-type-util.h in the same directory.
-
-You don't need to worry about regenerating the source files unless you need to
-modify them. You would then modify the corresponding `.pump` files and run the
-'[pump.py](googletest/scripts/pump.py)' generator script. See the
-[Pump Manual](googletest/docs/pump_manual.md).