diff --git a/.gitmodules b/.gitmodules
index bc4e5c1a..c60740e6 100644
--- a/.gitmodules
+++ b/.gitmodules
@@ -1,3 +1,6 @@
 [submodule "shared/data/lncv"]
 	path = shared/data/lncv
 	url = ../lncv.git
+[submodule "server/thirdparty/catch2"]
+	path = server/thirdparty/catch2
+	url = https://github.com/catchorg/Catch2.git
diff --git a/server/thirdparty/catch2 b/server/thirdparty/catch2
new file mode 160000
index 00000000..fa43b774
--- /dev/null
+++ b/server/thirdparty/catch2
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+Subproject commit fa43b77429ba76c462b1898d6cd2f2d7a9416b14