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diff --git a/vsprojects/README.md b/vsprojects/README.md index 355ef75724..14178daaa7 100644 --- a/vsprojects/README.md +++ b/vsprojects/README.md @@ -31,4 +31,13 @@ Also, you can `make.bat` directly to build and run gRPC tests. ``` > REM Run from this directory. > make.bat alarm_test -```
\ No newline at end of file +``` + +# Building protoc plugins +For generating service stub code, gRPC relies on plugins for `protoc` (the protocol buffer compiler). The solution `grpc_protoc_plugins.sln` allows you to build +Windows .exe binaries of gRPC protoc plugins. + +1. Open solution `third_party\protobuf\vsprojects\protobuf.sln` +2. Accept the conversion to newer Visual Studio version and ignore errors about gtest. +3. Build libprotoc in Release mode. +4. Open solution `vsprojects\grpc_protoc_plugins.sln` and build it in Release mode. As a result, you should obtain a set of gRPC protoc plugin binaries (`grpc_cpp_plugin.exe`, `grpc_csharp_plugin.exe`, ...) |