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| author |  Vijay Pai <vpai@google.com> | 2016-03-07 14:53:15 -0800 |
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| committer | Vijay Pai <vpai@google.com> | 2016-03-07 14:53:15 -0800 |
| commit | 9b9c40cfe8aab8699cc446087313af9059e8db3a (patch) | |
| tree | 6bb092f7d043908843226df629b197a0cd8b3279 /CONTRIBUTING.md | |
| parent | 06ba6cb9ae843ebc692119eca51047b261538be1 (diff) | |
| parent | 3a84f46a29a0a4db44a70a0026f726327e074877 (diff) | |
Merge pull request #5630 from yang-g/gflags_mention
Put back the gflags/gtest requirement to doc
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diff --git a/CONTRIBUTING.md b/CONTRIBUTING.md index 03d2e276a8..3f7519a1d7 100644 --- a/CONTRIBUTING.md +++ b/CONTRIBUTING.md @@ -21,6 +21,15 @@ In order to run all of the tests we provide, you will need valgrind and clang. More specifically, under debian, you will need the package libc++-dev to properly run all the tests. +Compiling and running grpc C++ tests depend on protobuf 3.0.0, gtest and gflags. +Although gflags is provided in third_party, you will need to manually install +that dependency on your system to run these tests. Under a Debian or Ubuntu +system, you can install the gtests and gflags packages using apt-get: + +```sh + $ [sudo] apt-get install libgflags-dev libgtest-dev +``` + If you are planning to work on any of the languages other than C and C++, you will also need their appropriate development environments. |