Non-existant gtest projects referenced in vsprojects/protobuf.sln

[dhirschfeld]

Unless I'm mistaken these projects no longer exist?

https://github.com/google/protobuf/blob/a21bf2e6466095c7a2cdb991017da9639cf496e5/vsprojects/protobuf.sln#L27-L30

[AdamANichols]

I had the same issue. I found the following repository and it compiled fine for me. I have not verified the version yet..
https://github.com/racker/protobuf

[springmeyer]

In case it is helpful you can also work around this bug by just building a few targets /target:libprotobuf-lite;libprotobuf;protoc. Here is the full script that I use to build v2.5.0 (not yet updated to v2.6.0): https://github.com/BergWerkGIS/mapnik-dependencies/blob/windows/scripts/build_protobuf.bat

[xfxyjwf]

If you are using one of our release packages, it should contain a gtest directory.

If you check out code from github directly, it doesn't contain a gtest directory. You have to run ./autogen.sh which will download gtest from its official Google Code site, or if you are using MSVC, you'll need to download it yourself (can this be automated?).

In the future we probably can add gtest as a submodule but that can only be done when gtest is available as a git repository (it's still svn only).

[dhirschfeld]

Is gtest available as a git repository in which case you could use a submodule?

...just read your last paragraph! 😛

[N0rFych]

I suggest adding info about autogen.sh to vsprojects/readme.txt