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Question: Colored output on Windows powershell with CTest

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#2,930 opened on Jul 7, 2020

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I'm using CMake and CTest to build and run my tests.

On Linux I can produce color googletest output with CTest, like this: GTEST_COLOR=1 ctest -V

On Windows I tried something similar in powershell: $Env:GTEST_COLOR=1; ctest -V

However the output is still not colored. How can I achieve the desired colored output?

I'm using Googletest 1.10.0 and CMake 3.17.3

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Check if Google Test supports colored output on Windows by default. If not, consider using a terminal emulator that supports ANSI colors, or set environment variables like GTEST COLOR=1 in the correct context. Also verify that CTest passes the environment variable to the test executable.
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cpp
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CMakePowerShell
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