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author | Stanley Cheung <stanleycheung@google.com> | 2016-03-04 12:21:05 -0800 |
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committer | Stanley Cheung <stanleycheung@google.com> | 2016-03-04 12:21:05 -0800 |
commit | 4cbf32ff66b92162da3553e254ea7a8ca0d82057 (patch) | |
tree | f1f9d162c845a70dfbf98d6ad93d1c3b11048699 /INSTALL.md | |
parent | c276619e56b5856766eda07ff8277b337b6675aa (diff) |
mention how to get protoc compiler in base INSTALL.md
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diff --git a/INSTALL.md b/INSTALL.md index d9411db021..ee4bc2b73d 100644 --- a/INSTALL.md +++ b/INSTALL.md @@ -32,6 +32,16 @@ terminal: $ [sudo] xcode-select --install ``` +##Protoc + +By default gRPC uses [protocol buffers](https://github.com/google/protobuf), +you will need the `protoc` compiler to generate stub server and client code. + +If you compile from source, see below, the Makefile will automatically try +and compile the one present in third_party if you cloned the repository +recursively, and that it detects your system is lacking it. + + #Build from Source For developers who are interested to contribute, here is how to compile the |