From 78c8200655d38a88b09a748b04cf46646b89be00 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Feng Xiao Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2014 15:36:08 -0800 Subject: Describe how to get gtest source for Visual Studio users. --- vsprojects/readme.txt | 7 +++++++ 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+) (limited to 'vsprojects') diff --git a/vsprojects/readme.txt b/vsprojects/readme.txt index 288345ad..ad342497 100644 --- a/vsprojects/readme.txt +++ b/vsprojects/readme.txt @@ -6,6 +6,13 @@ accessible to those who primarily work with MSVC. Compiling and Installing ======================== +0) Check whether a gtest directory exists in the upper level directory. If + you checkout the code from github via "git clone", this gtest directory + won't exist and you won't be able to build the tests described below. To + avoid this problem consider downloading one of the release tar balls which + contains gtest already and copying the gest directory from there to your + protobuf directory: + https://github.com/google/protobuf/releases 1) Open protobuf.sln in Microsoft Visual Studio. 2) Choose "Debug" or "Release" configuration as desired.* 3) From the Build menu, choose "Build Solution". Wait for compiling to finish. -- cgit v1.2.3