diff --git a/.travis.yml b/.travis.yml
index cc6eed0..48724c1 100644
--- a/.travis.yml
+++ b/.travis.yml
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ notifications:
   email: false
 
 env:
- - GTEST_DIR=~/gtest/googletest-release-1.8.0
+ - GTEST_DIR=~/gtest/googletest-release-1.8.0/googletest
 
 before_install:
  # Install a supported cmake version
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ before_install:
  - cd ~/gtest
  - wget https://github.com/google/googletest/archive/release-1.8.0.tar.gz
  - tar xf release-1.8.0.tar.gz
- - cd googletest-release-1.8.0
+ - cd googletest-release-1.8.0/googletest
  - cmake -DBUILD_SHARED_LIBS=ON .
  - make
  # target cmake requires ".a" OSX binaries, symlink them