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diff --git a/INSTALL.md b/INSTALL.md index d9411db021..454a8b7b2f 100644 --- a/INSTALL.md +++ b/INSTALL.md @@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ For language-specific installation instructions for gRPC runtime, please refer to these documents - * [C++](examples/cpp) + * [C++](examples/cpp): Currently to install gRPC for C++, you need to build from source as described below. * [C#](src/csharp): NuGet package `Grpc` * [Go](https://github.com/grpc/grpc-go): `go get google.golang.org/grpc` * [Java](https://github.com/grpc/grpc-java) @@ -32,6 +32,17 @@ 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 gRPC from source, as described below, the Makefile will +automatically try and compile the `protoc` in third_party if you cloned the +repository recursively and it detects that you don't already have it +installed. + + #Build from Source For developers who are interested to contribute, here is how to compile the |