You'll need bazel version 1.0.0 or higher to build gRPC. Using bazel will give you the best developer experience as well as faster and cleaner builds. Building with bazel (recommended)īazel is the primary build system for gRPC C++ and if you're comfortable with using bazel, we can certainly recommend it. Depending on your needs we recommend building using bazel or cmake. Therefore, gRPC supports several major build systems, which should satisfy most users. In the C++ world, there's no “standard” build system that would work for in all supported use cases and on all supported platforms. You only need to worry about downloading submodules if you're building with something else than bazel (e.g. NOTE: The bazel build tool uses a different model for dependencies. Use following commands to clone the gRPC repository at the latest stable release tag Unix $ git clone - b RELEASE_TAG_HERE https :// github.
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(Optional) Install Ninja ( choco install ninja)Ĭlone the repository (including submodules)īefore building, you need to clone the gRPC github repository and download submodules containing source code for gRPC‘s dependencies (that’s done by the submodule command or -recursive flag).Install nasm and add it to PATH ( choco install nasm) - required by boringssl.Install Visual Studio 2015 or 2017 (Visual C++ compiler will be used).To prepare for cmake + Microsoft Visual C++ compiler build Tip: when building, you may want to explicitly set the LIBTOOL and LIBTOOLIZE environment variables when running make to ensure the version installed by brew is being used: $ LIBTOOL = glibtool LIBTOOLIZE = glibtoolize make If you plan to build using CMake, follow the instructions from To build gRPC from source, you may need to install the following packages from Homebrew: $ brew install autoconf automake libtool shtool On a Mac, you will first need to install Xcode or Command Line Tools for Xcode and then run the following command from a terminal: $ xcode - select - install If you are a contributor and plan to build and run tests, install the following as well: $ # clang and LLVM C++ lib is only required for sanitizer builds If you plan to build using CMake $ apt - get install cmake Pre-requisites Linux $ apt - get install build - essential autoconf libtool pkg - config
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See the How to use instructions for guidance on how to add gRPC as a dependency to a C++ application (there are several ways and system wide installation is often not the best choice). Other should follow the user instructions. Note that it only covers the build of gRPC itself and is mostly meant for gRPC C++ contributors and/or power users. This document has detailed instructions on how to build gRPC C++ from source.