This is a spike solution to explore the possibility of writing Cucumber steps in C++, using GTest (Google C++ Testing Framework) as a backend.

It includes a sample borrowed from Cuke4Nuke that uses the same feature definitions but tests a C++ implementation.

Required tools and libraries:

• CMake 2.8 - http://www.cmake.org/
• Boost 1.40 - http://www.boost.org/ Should work with some previous versions, but it wasn't tested
• GTest Trunk r367 - http://code.google.com/p/googletest/ I developed cuke4cpp with the 1.4, but the trunk comes with a convenient CMake script
• JsonCpp Trunk r91 - http://jsoncpp.sourceforge.net/ Partially included in the 3rd_party directory, with a simple CMake script. There is no need to install this library.

Quick start on Linux (with in-source build):

cmake . cmake --build . examples/Calc/CalculatorSteps >/dev/null & cucumber examples/Calc/CalcFeatures/features

CMake hints:

• For GTest, set GTEST_ROOT to the location of the GTest install prefix. If the GTest libraries were installed in /usr/local/lib and the includes are in /usr/local/include/gtest, then add "-DGTEST_ROOT=/usr/local" to the cmake command line.

• For Boost, set BOOST_ROOT to the location of the Boost install prefix if CMake has troubles finding it.