Best way to add gtest to Visual Studio solution without NuGet

I have a GIT repository which contains a Visual Studio solution.I need to add some tests for the code, and wanted to use Gtest for it.Now, when I add a gtest project to the solution, a NuGet package of gtest is added to the solution directory. That's a lot of files that I don't want to keep inside the repository...

Can I add a gtest project to the solution without having to keep the package in the repository, instead linking directly to the visual studio extension?Or will I have to compile gtest myself separately and link to it manually?