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Installing gRPC on your system

Installing prerequisites (from https://grpc.io/docs/languages/cpp/quickstart/)

Choose a directory to hold locally installed packages using an appropriately set CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX, because there is no easy way to uninstall gRPC after you've installed it globally. For example ~/.local/

export MY_INSTALL_DIR=$HOME/.local

Ensure that the directory exists

mkdir -p $MY_INSTALL_DIR

Check if "$MY_INSTALL_DIR/bin" is in your $PATH. If not then add the local bin folder to your path variable

export PATH="$MY_INSTALL_DIR/bin:$PATH"

Check cmake version (cmake --version) or install cmake and check its version. It should be 3.13 or later

sudo apt install -y cmake

If cmake's version is still old, reinstall it

wget -q -O cmake-linux.sh https://github.com/Kitware/CMake/releases/download/v3.19.6/cmake-3.19.6-Linux-x86_64.sh
sh cmake-linux.sh -- --skip-license --prefix=$MY_INSTALL_DIR
rm cmake-linux.sh

Install other tools

sudo apt install -y build-essential autoconf libtool pkg-config

Building and Installing gRPC, Protocol Buffers, and Abseil

Check for the current version of grpc and clone the repo including all necessary 3rd party libs:

https://grpc.io/docs/languages/cpp/quickstart/#:~:text=git%20clone%20--recurse-submodules%20-b%20v1.38.0%20https%3A//github.com/grpc/grpc

git clone --recurse-submodules -b v1.38.1 https://github.com/grpc/grpc
cd grpc
mkdir -p cmake/build
pushd cmake/build
cmake -DgRPC_INSTALL=ON -DgRPC_BUILD_TESTS=OFF -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=$MY_INSTALL_DIR ../..
make -j
make install
popd
mkdir -p third_party/abseil-cpp/cmake/build
pushd third_party/abseil-cpp/cmake/build
cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=$MY_INSTALL_DIR -DCMAKE_POSITION_INDEPENDENT_CODE=TRUE ../..
make -j
make install
popd