From ae2b601bea6730629893327c40f5581ee8d3a3dd Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Philipp Stephani <p.stephani2@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 4 Nov 2025 19:41:46 +0100
Subject: [PATCH 1/2] =?UTF-8?q?Don=E2=80=99t=20link=20targets=20with=20mai?=
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This works only because the linker discards the main function from the
//:gtest_main library, otherwise the symbol would be duplicated.
---
 googletest/test/BUILD.bazel | 8 ++++----
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/googletest/test/BUILD.bazel b/googletest/test/BUILD.bazel
index 9575ae11a4..7561d3c165 100644
--- a/googletest/test/BUILD.bazel
+++ b/googletest/test/BUILD.bazel
@@ -125,7 +125,7 @@ cc_test(
     name = "googletest-listener-test",
     size = "small",
     srcs = ["googletest-listener-test.cc"],
-    deps = ["//:gtest_main"],
+    deps = ["//:gtest"],
 )
 
 cc_test(
@@ -358,7 +358,7 @@ cc_test(
     name = "gtest_skip_in_environment_setup_test",
     size = "small",
     srcs = ["gtest_skip_in_environment_setup_test.cc"],
-    deps = ["//:gtest_main"],
+    deps = ["//:gtest"],
 )
 
 py_test(
@@ -417,7 +417,7 @@ cc_binary(
     name = "googletest-catch-exceptions-no-ex-test_",
     testonly = 1,
     srcs = ["googletest-catch-exceptions-test_.cc"],
-    deps = ["//:gtest_main"],
+    deps = ["//:gtest"],
 )
 
 cc_binary(
@@ -425,7 +425,7 @@ cc_binary(
     testonly = 1,
     srcs = ["googletest-catch-exceptions-test_.cc"],
     copts = ["-fexceptions"],
-    deps = ["//:gtest_main"],
+    deps = ["//:gtest"],
 )
 
 py_test(

From d54d30fecb5d37d8d50e8123f715bea206e72ca3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Philipp Stephani <p.stephani2@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 4 Nov 2025 19:33:13 +0100
Subject: [PATCH 2/2] Add alwayslink = True to //:gtest_main

Fixes #4868
---
 BUILD.bazel | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/BUILD.bazel b/BUILD.bazel
index 5ab4e114f6..03392c6b48 100644
--- a/BUILD.bazel
+++ b/BUILD.bazel
@@ -187,6 +187,7 @@ cc_library(
         "//conditions:default": [],
     }),
     deps = [":gtest"],
+    alwayslink = True,
 )
 
 # The following rules build samples of how to use gTest.