diff --git a/CMakeLists.txt b/CMakeLists.txt
index 6818515..d9b4967 100644
--- a/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -6,26 +6,6 @@ project(qmlApp)
 add_definitions(-std=c++14)
 set(CMAKE_CXX_FLAGS "${CMAXE_CXX_FLAGS} -Wall")
 
-##
-### config for getting/building gtest
-# Download and unpack googletest at configure time
-configure_file(CMakeLists.txt.in
-googletest-download/CMakeLists.txt)
-execute_process(COMMAND ${CMAKE_COMMAND} -G "${CMAKE_GENERATOR}" .
-WORKING_DIRECTORY ${CMAKE_BINARY_DIR}/googletest-download )
-execute_process(COMMAND ${CMAKE_COMMAND} --build .
-WORKING_DIRECTORY ${CMAKE_BINARY_DIR}/googletest-download )
-
-# Prevent GoogleTest from overriding our compiler/linker options
-# when building with Visual Studio
-set(gtest_force_shared_crt ON CACHE BOOL "" FORCE)
-
-# Add googletest directly to our build. This adds
-# the following targets: gtest, gtest_main, gmock
-# and gmock_main
-add_subdirectory(${CMAKE_BINARY_DIR}/googletest-src
-${CMAKE_BINARY_DIR}/googletest-build)
-
 set(CMAKE_MODULE_PATH ${CMAKE_MODULE_PATH} ${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR}/cmake/modules)
 
 set(CMAKE_AUTOMOC ON)