#0: fetch gtest via CPM

.github/actions/install-metal-dev-deps/action.yml

@@ -37,15 +37,6 @@ runs:
         tar -xvf doxygen-1.9.6.linux.bin.tar.gz
         cd doxygen-1.9.6
         sudo make install
-    - name: Install gtest
-      shell: bash
-      run: |
-        curl -L "https://github.com/google/googletest/archive/refs/tags/v1.13.0.tar.gz" -o v1.13.0.tar.gz
-        tar -xvf v1.13.0.tar.gz
-        cd googletest-1.13.0
-        cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr -DBUILD_SHARED_LIBS=ON .
-        make
-        sudo make install
     - name: Install Clang-17
       shell: bash
       run: |

CMakeLists.txt

@@ -33,13 +33,21 @@ CHECK_COMPILERS()
 # Find all required libraries to build
 ############################################################################################################################
 include(${PROJECT_SOURCE_DIR}/cmake/CPM_boost.cmake)
-find_package(GTest REQUIRED)
 find_package (Python3 COMPONENTS Interpreter Development)
 find_library(NUMA_LIBRARY NAMES numa)
 if (NOT NUMA_LIBRARY)
     message(FATAL_ERROR "NUMA library not found")
 endif()
 
+CPMAddPackage(
+  NAME googletest
+  GITHUB_REPOSITORY google/googletest
+  GIT_TAG release-1.12.1
+  VERSION 1.12.1
+  OPTIONS "INSTALL_GTEST ON" "gtest_force_shared_crt ON"
+)
+
+
 ############################################################################################################################
 # Setting build type flags
 #   Will default to assert build, unless CONFIG env variable is set or manually set -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE

INSTALLING.md

@@ -128,5 +128,3 @@ sudo apt install git git-lfs cmake=3.16.3-1ubuntu1.20.04.1 pandoc libtbb-dev lib
 ```
 
 2. Download and install [Doxygen](https://www.doxygen.nl/download.html), (v1.9 or higher, but less than v1.10)
-
-3. Download and install [gtest](https://github.com/google/googletest) from source (v1.13)

tests/CMakeLists.txt

@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 
+enable_testing()
 add_library(test_common_libs INTERFACE)
-target_link_libraries(test_common_libs INTERFACE pthread stdc++fs GTest::GTest GTest::Main)
+target_link_libraries(test_common_libs INTERFACE pthread stdc++fs gtest gtest_main)
 
 add_subdirectory(${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR}/tt_metal/tt_metal)
 add_subdirectory(${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR}/tt_eager)