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diff --git a/vsprojects/README.md b/vsprojects/README.md index 4b6608ba93..ee32ecab9a 100644 --- a/vsprojects/README.md +++ b/vsprojects/README.md @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ -# Pre-generated MS Visual Studio project & solution files +# Pre-generated MS Visual Studio project & solution files: DELETED -**DEPRECATED, please use cmake instead (it can generate Visual Studio projects for you). We will continue providing pre-generated VS projects for a while, but we will likely get rid of them entirely at some point.** +**The pre-generated MS Visual Studio project & solution files are no longer available, please use cmake instead (it can generate Visual Studio projects for you).** **Pre-generated MS Visual Studio projects used to be the recommended way to build on Windows, but there were some limitations:** - **hard to build dependencies, expecially boringssl (deps usually support cmake quite well)** @@ -8,54 +8,4 @@ - **.proto codegen is hard to support in Visual Studio directly (but we have a pretty decent support in cmake)** - **It's a LOT of generated files. We prefer not to have too much generated code in our github repo.** -Versions 2013 and 2015 are both supported. You can use [their respective -community -editions](https://www.visualstudio.com/en-us/downloads/download-visual-studio-vs.aspx). - -# Building -We are using [NuGet](http://www.nuget.org) to pull zlib and openssl dependencies. -If you don't have Visual Studio NuGet plugin installed, you'll need to -download nuget.exe from the web and manually restore the NuGet packages. - -``` -> REM Run from this directory. -> REM No need to do this if you have NuGet visual studio extension. -> nuget restore grpc.sln -``` - -After that, you can build the solution using one of these options: - 1. open `grpc.sln` with Visual Studio and hit "Build". - 2. build from commandline using `msbuild grpc.sln /p:Configuration=Debug` - -# C/C++ Test Dependencies - * gtest isn't available as a git repo like the other dependencies. download it and add it to `/third_party/gtest/` (the folder will end up with `/build-aux/`, `/cmake/`, `/codegear/`, etc. folders in it). - * if using vs2013: open/import the gtest solution in `/msvc/`, and save over the first solution (you will have to change it from read-only). change all projects to use `/MDd` (Property Pages - C/C++ - Code Generation - Runtime Library) and build. This is a "multithreaded debug" setting and it needs to match grpc. - * build all - * open protobuf solution in `/third_party/protobuf/vsprojects` - * if using vs2013: on import the gtest stuff will probably fail, I think the paths are interpreted wrong. it's ok. - * tests and test_plugin will fail when built. also ok - * build all - * gflags is automatically imported as a git submodule but it needs to have CMake run on it to be ready for a specific platform - * download [CMake](http://www.cmake.org/) windows installer; install - * open visual studio developer command prompt (not sure if dev command prompt is necessary) - * run `cmake <path to gtest directory>` - * this will build a `.sln` and fill up the `/third_party/gflags/include/gflags/` directory with headers - * build all - * install [NuGet](http://www.nuget.org) - * nuget should automatically bring in built versions of zlib and openssl when building grpc.sln (the versions in `/third_party/` are not used). If it doesn't work use `tools->nuget...->manage...`. The packages are put in `/vsprojects/packages/` - -# 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. - -- Follow instructions in `third_party\protobuf\cmake\README.md` to create Visual Studio 2013 projects for protobuf. - ``` - $ cd third_party/protobuf/cmake - $ mkdir build & cd build - $ mkdir solution & cd solution - $ cmake -G "Visual Studio 12 2013" -Dprotobuf_BUILD_TESTS=OFF ../.. - ``` - -- Open solution `third_party\protobuf\cmake\build\solution\protobuf.sln` and build it in Release mode. That will build libraries `libprotobuf.lib` and `libprotoc.lib` needed for the next step. - -- 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`, ...) +See [INSTALL.md](/INSTALL.md) for detailed instructions how to build using cmake on Windows. |