diff --git a/.appveyor.yml b/.appveyor.yml
index 8eb36116..2dede6fc 100644
--- a/.appveyor.yml
+++ b/.appveyor.yml
@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@ version: 0.0.0.0.1-branch-{branch}-build-{build}
 clone_depth: 10
 cache:
     - c:\cygwin-setup-cache
+    - c:\gtest-1.7.0
 environment:
     matrix:
         - cygwin_url: https://cygwin.com/setup-x86_64.exe
@@ -20,12 +21,19 @@ install:
     - c:\cygwin-root\bin\sh -lc "cat /proc/meminfo"
     - c:\cygwin-root\bin\sh -lc "cygcheck -s -v > $APPVEYOR_BUILD_FOLDER/cygcheck.log 2>&1"
     - ps: Push-AppveyorArtifact cygcheck.log
+    - ps: |
+        if (Test-Path "c:\gtest-1.7.0\src\gtest-all.cc") {
+          echo "using gtest from cache"
+        } else {
+          (New-Object Net.WebClient).DownloadFile('http://googletest.googlecode.com/files/gtest-1.7.0.zip', 'c:\gtest-1.7.0.zip')
+          7z x -oc:/ c:/gtest-1.7.0.zip
+        }
 # stdin is broken at AppVeyor, so we open it explicitly as /dev/null
 build_script:
     - git submodule update --init
     - c:\cygwin-root\bin\sh -lc "cd $APPVEYOR_BUILD_FOLDER; ./autogen.sh < /dev/null"
     - mkdir build
-    - c:\cygwin-root\bin\sh -lc "cd $APPVEYOR_BUILD_FOLDER/build; ../configure --enable-charset --enable-zlib --enable-openssl --enable-perl --enable-python --enable-cyrus < /dev/null"
+    - c:\cygwin-root\bin\sh -lc "cd $APPVEYOR_BUILD_FOLDER/build; ../configure --enable-charset --enable-zlib --enable-openssl --enable-perl --enable-python --enable-cyrus --with-gtest=/cygdrive/c/gtest-1.7.0 < /dev/null"
     - ps: Push-AppveyorArtifact build\config.log
     - c:\cygwin-root\bin\sh -lc "cd $APPVEYOR_BUILD_FOLDER/build; make VERBOSE=1 -j2 < /dev/null"
     - c:\cygwin-root\bin\sh -lc "cd $APPVEYOR_BUILD_FOLDER/build; make install < /dev/null"