Skip to content

Do not apply LTO on GoogleTest executables #2397

New issue

Have a question about this project? Sign up for a free GitHub account to open an issue and contact its maintainers and the community.

Sign up for GitHub

By clicking “Sign up for GitHub”, you agree to our terms of service and privacy statement. We’ll occasionally send you account related emails.

Already on GitHub? Sign in to your account

Merged
jviotti merged 1 commit into from
May 21, 2026
Merged

Do not apply LTO on GoogleTest executables #2397

Changes from all commits
Commits
Show all changes
1 commit
Select commit
File filter

Filter by extension

Filter by extension
Conversations
Failed to load comments.
Loading
Jump to
Jump to file
Failed to load files.
Loading
Diff view
Diff view
8 changes: 8 additions & 0 deletions cmake/common/targets/googletest.cmake
View file
Open in desktop
Original file line number Diff line number Diff line change
Expand Up @@ -18,6 +18,14 @@ function(sourcemeta_googletest)

target_link_libraries("${TARGET_NAME}"
PRIVATE GTest::gtest GTest::gmock GTest::gtest_main)

# Test executables are not shipped, so LTO buys nothing and significantly
# slows the link step (GCC's LTRANS phase serializes per executable)
if(SOURCEMETA_COMPILER_LLVM OR SOURCEMETA_COMPILER_GCC)
target_compile_options("${TARGET_NAME}" PRIVATE -fno-lto)
target_link_options("${TARGET_NAME}" PRIVATE -fno-lto)
Comment thread
jviotti marked this conversation as resolved.
endif()

add_test(NAME "${SOURCEMETA_GOOGLETEST_PROJECT}.${SOURCEMETA_GOOGLETEST_NAME}"
COMMAND "${TARGET_NAME}" --gtest_brief=1)
endfunction()
Loading