From 22d8e60bdb7a9410023b019c277dcf5b2ee42651 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jan Tattermusch Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2018 13:59:31 +0200 Subject: improve BUILDING.md --- BUILDING.md | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) diff --git a/BUILDING.md b/BUILDING.md index e408402a76..81edb68e43 100644 --- a/BUILDING.md +++ b/BUILDING.md @@ -103,6 +103,9 @@ repository at the latest stable version. In the C++ world, there's no "standard" build system that would work for in all supported use cases and on all supported platforms. Therefore, gRPC supports several major build systems, which should satisfy most users. +Note that this section only covers the build of gRPC itself, not the installation. See the [How to use](https://github.com/grpc/grpc/tree/master/src/cpp#to-start-using-grpc-c) instructions +for guidance on how to add gRPC as a dependency to a C++ application (there are several ways and system wide installation is often not the best choice). + ## make (on UNIX systems) From the grpc repository root -- cgit v1.2.3