Add option to use external GTest in CMake #8736
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If
-Dprotobuf_USE_EXTERNAL_GTEST=ON
is passed to CMake, it will use an external Google Test copy (i.e. by callingfind_package(GTest REQUIRED)
) rather than the one provided as a submodule.This makes sense for larger projects that might already include Google Test and want to use a more standard CMake approach.
Also updated build instructions with this information, and more idiomatic usage.