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authorGravatar Jan Tattermusch <jtattermusch@users.noreply.github.com>2018-07-02 11:59:59 +0200
committerGravatar GitHub <noreply@github.com>2018-07-02 11:59:59 +0200
commit6eb6c845aa419f0c3a3e6be69a7e74e72a306f90 (patch)
tree7015b4b0dd15d4fdfe98f6d13de95112c3a5d792
parentb1665f02664f46ffc9e69802d5f65f00669f2787 (diff)
parentf4a03a57eca409f4091b309c162c35c4dfdf30ab (diff)
Merge pull request #15822 from jtattermusch/building_doc_polish
Improve BUILDING.md and CONTRIBUTING.md
-rw-r--r--BUILDING.md4
-rw-r--r--CONTRIBUTING.md6
2 files changed, 6 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/BUILDING.md b/BUILDING.md
index e1d63a7461..e408402a76 100644
--- a/BUILDING.md
+++ b/BUILDING.md
@@ -112,9 +112,11 @@ From the grpc repository root
## bazel
+See [Installing Bazel](https://docs.bazel.build/versions/master/install.html) for instructions how to install bazel on your system.
+
From the grpc repository root
```
-bazel build :all
+$ bazel build :all
```
## cmake: Windows, Using Visual Studio 2015 or 2017 (can only build with OPENSSL_NO_ASM).
diff --git a/CONTRIBUTING.md b/CONTRIBUTING.md
index abd7a5eb78..e8582d9af5 100644
--- a/CONTRIBUTING.md
+++ b/CONTRIBUTING.md
@@ -24,9 +24,9 @@ script that unifies the experience of building and testing gRPC in different
languages and on different platforms is provided.
To build gRPC in the language of choice (e.g. `c++`, `csharp`, `php`, `python`, `ruby`, ...)
-- Prepare you development environment based on language-specific instructions in `src/YOUR-LANGUAGE` directory.
+- Prepare your development environment based on language-specific instructions in `src/YOUR-LANGUAGE` directory.
- The language-specific instructions might involve installing C/C++ prerequisites listed in
- [Building gRPC C++: Prerequisites](BUILDING.md#pre-requisites) as gRPC implementations
+ [Building gRPC C++: Prerequisites](BUILDING.md#pre-requisites). This is because gRPC implementations
in this repository are using the native gRPC "core" library internally.
- Run
```
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ To build gRPC in the language of choice (e.g. `c++`, `csharp`, `php`, `python`,
```
You can also run `python tools/run_tests/run_tests.py --help` to discover useful command line flags supported. For more details,
-see [tools/run_tests](tools/run_tests) where you will also find guidance on how to run various other test suites (e.g. interop tests, benchmarks)
+see [tools/run_tests](tools/run_tests) where you will also find guidance on how to run various other test suites (e.g. interop tests, benchmarks).
## Generated project files