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diff --git a/CONTRIBUTING.md b/CONTRIBUTING.md index 850ea14399..b4e958d3b2 100644 --- a/CONTRIBUTING.md +++ b/CONTRIBUTING.md @@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ In order to protect both you and ourselves, you will need to sign the ### Technical requirements You will need several tools to work with this repository. In addition to all of -the packages described in the [INSTALL](INSTALL) file, you will also need +the packages described in the [INSTALL](INSTALL.md) file, you will also need python, and the mako template renderer. To install the latter, using pip, one should simply be able to do `pip install mako`. @@ -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. |