Running Tests: do I need to build GTest separately?

[Anil]

This, in the docs is unclear to me:

Building of Hotspot Gtest suite requires the source code of Google Test
> framework. The top directory, which contains both googletest and
> googlemock directories, should be specified via --with-gtest

Building the JDK (openjdk.org)
<https://openjdk.org/groups/build/doc/building.html>
(Windows11, Cygwin64)

I cloned the gtest repo. Do I need to build it?
If so...
This page says Visual Studio comes with GTest included.
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It would be nice if I can just pass the already built location in VS, but I
can't find where it is (I looked inside the VS install folder).

Or, am I supposed to just add it to bash configure?

$ bash configure
--with-jtreg=/cygdrive/c/users/anil/OpenJDK/jtreg-7.4+1/jtreg
--with-gtest=/cygdrive/c/users/anil/OpenJDK/googletest
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