Development:Developer Build

During development, it can be helpful to include the -DDEVBUILD=1 (for CMake) or --enable-devbuild (for autotools) parameter in the configure step to enable unit tests and turn off optimization, which will make debugging much easier.

Additional Dependencies

google-glog, googletest, and googlemock require special preparation, as only googletest seems to be currently packed for Ubuntu, and the packaged version is well out of date.

google-glog

1. Get the source:

   wget http://google-glog.googlecode.com/files/glog-0.3.0.tar.gz

2. Unpack the source:

   tar xvzf glog-0.3.0.tar.gz

3. Build and install:

   cd glog-0.3.0
./configure && make && sudo make install

googletest

1. Get the source:

   wget http://googletest.googlecode.com/files/gtest-1.4.0.tar.gz

2. Unpack the source:

   tar xvzf gtest-1.4.0.tar.gz

3. Get the patch:

   wget http://www.jmglov.net/opensource/src/gtest-1.4.0_pkg-config.patch

4. Patch the source:

   patch -p0 <gtest-1.4.0_pkg-config.patch

5. Build and install:

   cd gtest-0.4.0
./configure && make && sudo make install

googlemock

1. Get the source:

   wget http://googlemock.googlecode.com/files/gmock-1.4.0.tar.gz

2. Unpack the source:

   tar xvzf gmock-1.4.0.tar.gz

3. Get the patch:

   wget http://www.jmglov.net/opensource/src/gmock-1.4.0_pkg-config.patch

4. Patch the source:

   patch -p0 <gmock-1.4.0_pkg-config.patch

5. Build and install:

   cd gmock-0.4.0
./configure && make && sudo make install