Dependencies issue on googletest with cmake: gtest/gtest.h No such file or directory

Question

Bonjour,

I am currently working a bit on CMake in order to use ExternalProject_add at work. And as I want to test googletest, I try to test both. I encounter an issue during the compilation of my unit test code.

So I just follow the README of the googletest project on github: https://github.com/google/googletest/blob/master/googletest/README.md#incorporating-into-an-existing-cmake-project.

Here is my project tree:

test_cpp/
├── build
├── CMakeLists.txt
├── CMakeLists.txt.in
├── inc
│   └── foo.h
├── src
│   └── foo.c
└── test
    └── test_foo.c

My test_foo.c just test a function in foo that round a double:

#include "gtest/gtest.h"
#include "foo.h"

TEST(AddTest, roundValue)
{
        ASSERT_EQ(roundValue(2.6),3);
}

int main(int argc, char **argv)
{
        ::testing::InitGoogleTest(&argc,argv);
        return RUN_ALL_TESTS();
}

Here it the result of the cmake command:

axis@axis-mad:~/Work/test_cpp/build$ cmake ..
-- The C compiler identification is GNU 5.4.0
-- The CXX compiler identification is GNU 5.4.0
-- Check for working C compiler: /usr/bin/cc
-- Check for working C compiler: /usr/bin/cc -- works
-- Detecting C compiler ABI info
-- Detecting C compiler ABI info - done
-- Check for working CXX compiler: /usr/bin/c++
-- Check for working CXX compiler: /usr/bin/c++ -- works
-- Detecting CXX compiler ABI info
-- Detecting CXX compiler ABI info - done
-- Found Git: /usr/bin/git (found version "2.7.4")
-- Configuring done
-- Generating done
-- Build files have been written to:     /home/axis/Work/test_cpp/build/googletest-download
Scanning dependencies of target googletest
[ 11%] Creating directories for 'googletest'
[ 22%] Performing download step (git clone) for 'googletest'
Clonage dans 'googletest-src'...
Déjà sur 'master'
Votre branche est à jour avec 'origin/master'.
[ 33%] No patch step for 'googletest'
[ 44%] Performing update step for 'googletest'
Déjà sur 'master'
Votre branche est à jour avec 'origin/master'.
[ 55%] No configure step for 'googletest'
[ 66%] No build step for 'googletest'
[ 77%] No install step for 'googletest'
[ 88%] No test step for 'googletest'
[100%] Completed 'googletest'
[100%] Built target googletest
MESSAGE CMAKE_BINARY_DIR: /home/axis/Work/test_cpp/build
-- Found PythonInterp: /usr/bin/python (found version "2.7.12")
-- Looking for include file pthread.h
-- Looking for include file pthread.h - found
-- Looking for pthread_create
-- Looking for pthread_create - not found
-- Looking for pthread_create in pthreads
-- Looking for pthread_create in pthreads - not found
-- Looking for pthread_create in pthread
-- Looking for pthread_create in pthread - found
-- Found Threads: TRUE  
-- Test case source files/home/axis/Work/test_cpp/test/test_foo.c
-- Configuring done
-- Generating done
-- Build files have been written to: /home/axis/Work/test_cpp/build

CMake downloads correctly googletest. The makefile and the dependencies seem also correct but I have this error at the include of gtest/gtest.h:

axis@axis-mad:~/Work/test_cpp/build$ make
Scanning dependencies of target foo
[ 25%] Building C object CMakeFiles/foo.dir/src/foo.c.o
Linking C shared library libfoo.so
[ 25%] Built target foo
Scanning dependencies of target gtest
[ 50%] Building CXX object googletest-build/googlemock/gtest/CMakeFiles/gtest.dir/src/gtest-all.cc.o
Linking CXX static library libgtest.a
[ 50%] Built target gtest
Scanning dependencies of target gtest_main
[ 75%] Building CXX object googletest-build/googlemock/gtest/CMakeFiles/gtest_main.dir/src/gtest_main.cc.o
Linking CXX static library libgtest_main.a
[ 75%] Built target gtest_main
Scanning dependencies of target foo_test
[100%] Building C object CMakeFiles/foo_test.dir/test/test_foo.c.o
In file included from /home/axis/Work/test_cpp/test/test_foo.c:1:0:
/home/axis/Work/test_cpp/build/googletest-src/googletest/include/gtest/gtest.h:54:18: fatal error: limits: No such file or directory
compilation terminated.
CMakeFiles/foo_test.dir/build.make:54 : recipe for target « CMakeFiles/foo_test.dir/test/test_foo.c.o » failed
make[2]: *** [CMakeFiles/foo_test.dir/test/test_foo.c.o] Error 1
CMakeFiles/Makefile2:97 : recipe for target « CMakeFiles/foo_test.dir/all » failed
make[1]: *** [CMakeFiles/foo_test.dir/all] Erreur 2
Makefile:123 : recipe for target « all » failed
make: *** [all] Error 2

Here is my CMakeLists.txt file:

cmake_minimum_required(VERSION 2.8.9)
project (foo)

## Dependencies
include(ExternalProject)

# Use CMake to download GoogleTest as part of the build's configure step
# Download and unpack googletest at configure time
configure_file(CMakeLists.txt.in googletest-download/CMakeLists.txt)
execute_process(COMMAND ${CMAKE_COMMAND} -G "${CMAKE_GENERATOR}" .
  RESULT_VARIABLE result
  WORKING_DIRECTORY ${CMAKE_BINARY_DIR}/googletest-download )
if(result)
  message(FATAL_ERROR "CMake step for googletest failed: ${result}")
endif()
execute_process(COMMAND ${CMAKE_COMMAND} --build .
  RESULT_VARIABLE result
  WORKING_DIRECTORY ${CMAKE_BINARY_DIR}/googletest-download )
if(result)
  message(FATAL_ERROR "Build step for googletest failed: ${result}")
endif()

# Add googletest directly to our build. This defines
# the gtest and gtest_main targets.
add_subdirectory(${CMAKE_BINARY_DIR}/googletest-src
                 ${CMAKE_BINARY_DIR}/googletest-build
                 EXCLUDE_FROM_ALL)

# The gtest/gtest_main targets carry header search path
# dependencies automatically when using CMake 2.8.11 or
# later. Otherwise we have to add them here ourselves.
if (CMAKE_VERSION VERSION_LESS 2.8.11)
  include_directories("${gtest_SOURCE_DIR}/include")
endif()

## Main Project
include_directories(inc)

file(GLOB SOURCES ${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR}/src/*.c)
add_library(foo SHARED ${SOURCES})

## Test

enable_testing()
set(PROJECT_TEST_NAME ${PROJECT_NAME}_test)

file(GLOB TEST_SRC_FILES ${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR}/test/*.c)
message(STATUS "Test case source files" ${TEST_SRC_FILES})

add_executable(${PROJECT_TEST_NAME} ${TEST_SRC_FILES})
target_link_libraries(${PROJECT_TEST_NAME}
    foo
    gtest_main
)
add_test(NAME ${PROJECT_TEST_NAME} COMMAND ${PROJECT_TEST_NAME})

I tried to use include_directories with the full path of my googletest include dir but with no much result. So I am a bit out of idea

regards

Solution

You should give valid directory and lib in your make file.

In your CMakeLists.txt file do the following:

1. Add googletest subdirectory

add_subdirectory(${CMAKE_BINARY_DIR}/googletest)

2. Link against gtest library

target_link_libraries(${PROJECT_TEST_NAME}
    foo
    gtest
    gtest_main
)

Comments

[Tsyvarev]

Contrary to the title, non-english message fatal error: limits: Aucun fichier ou dossier de ce type looks like fatal error: limits: No such file or directory. Please, fix the title. As for error message itself, it is because gtest/gtest.h is a C++ header (and googletest, in total, is C++ test platform), but you use it with test written in C language.

[Garag]

Hi Preetam, the *.c files was the reason of the error. I tested with and without gtest in the target_link_librairies and it worked both. But I will keep in mind to add both gtest and gtest_main.

[Preetam Singh]

Hi Garag,could you please provide .c and .h file that i can take a look. if You want send Demo code [email protected]

[Fabian]

Hi Preetam, can you explain, which of the CMakeLists.txt do you mean? Regarding to this example (what lead me to the same issue as above), there are a lot of CMakeLists.txt. cheuksblog.ca/tutorial/2017/12/19/googletest-tutorial.html Writing in the root CMakeLists leads to another error.