-TERMUX_PKG_VERSION=1.7.0
-TERMUX_PKG_SRCURL=https://googletest.googlecode.com/files/gtest-${TERMUX_PKG_VERSION}.zip
-TERMUX_PKG_BUILD_IN_SRC=yes
+TERMUX_PKG_VERSION=1.8.0
+TERMUX_PKG_SRCURL=https://github.com/google/googletest/archive/release-${TERMUX_PKG_VERSION}.tar.gz
+TERMUX_PKG_FOLDERNAME=googletest-release-$TERMUX_PKG_VERSION
+TERMUX_PKG_NO_DEVELSPLIT=yes
+TERMUX_PKG_EXTRA_CONFIGURE_ARGS="-DBUILD_SHARED_LIBS=ON"