diff --git a/.gitmodules b/.gitmodules
index 185a92c41..fd2e80d4b 100644
--- a/.gitmodules
+++ b/.gitmodules
@@ -97,3 +97,6 @@
 [submodule "vendor/mapbox-base"]
 	path = vendor/mapbox-base
 	url = https://github.com/mapbox/mapbox-base.git
+[submodule "vendor/googletest"]
+	path = vendor/googletest
+	url = https://github.com/google/googletest.git
diff --git a/vendor/googletest b/vendor/googletest
new file mode 160000
index 000000000..ec44c6c16
--- /dev/null
+++ b/vendor/googletest
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+Subproject commit ec44c6c1675c25b9827aacd08c02433cccde7780