diff -Naur googletest-5a509dbd2e5a6c694116e329c5a20dc190653724/BUILD.bazel googletest.new/BUILD.bazel
--- BUILD.bazel
+++ BUILD.bazel
@@ -159,11 +159,14 @@
 cc_library(
     name = "gtest_main",
     srcs = ["googlemock/src/gmock_main.cc"],
     features = select({
         ":windows": ["windows_export_all_symbols"],
         "//conditions:default": [],
     }),
-    deps = [":gtest"],
+    deps = select({
+        ":has_absl": ["@com_google_absl//absl/flags:parse"],
+        "//conditions:default": [],
+    }) + [":gtest"],
 )

 # The following rules build samples of how to use gTest.
diff -Naur googletest-5a509dbd2e5a6c694116e329c5a20dc190653724/googlemock/src/gmock_main.cc googletest.new/googlemock/src/gmock_main.cc
--- googlemock/src/gmock_main.cc
+++ googlemock/src/gmock_main.cc
@@ -32,6 +32,9 @@

 #include <iostream>

+#if GTEST_HAS_ABSL
+#include "absl/flags/parse.h"
+#endif  //  GTEST_HAS_ABSL
 #include "gmock/gmock.h"
 #include "gtest/gtest.h"

@@ -70,6 +73,9 @@
   // also responsible for initializing Google Test.  Therefore there's
   // no need for calling testing::InitGoogleTest() separately.
   testing::InitGoogleMock(&argc, argv);
+#if GTEST_HAS_ABSL
+  absl::ParseCommandLine(argc, argv);
+#endif  //  GTEST_HAS_ABSL
   return RUN_ALL_TESTS();
 }
 #endif
diff -Naur googletest-5a509dbd2e5a6c694116e329c5a20dc190653724/googletest/src/gtest_main.cc googletest.new/googletest/src/gtest_main.cc
--- googletest/src/gtest_main.cc
+++ googletest/src/gtest_main.cc
@@ -50,6 +50,9 @@
 GTEST_API_ int main(int argc, char **argv) {
   printf("Running main() from %s\n", __FILE__);
   testing::InitGoogleTest(&argc, argv);
+#if GTEST_HAS_ABSL
+  absl::ParseCommandLine(argc, argv);
+#endif  //  GTEST_HAS_ABSL
   return RUN_ALL_TESTS();
 }
 #endif