On Mon, May 4, 2020 at 8:53 AM John Leidel <john.lei...@gmail.com> wrote:
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That being said, it would be preferred to have the gRPC build throw an > error for incompatible CMake versions. > I agree. > > On Mon, May 4, 2020 at 7:46 AM Jan Tattermusch <jtattermu...@google.com> > wrote: > >> The problem with that is that cmake 3.13 is not available by default in >> many popular linux distributions. >> >> e.g. >> - debian stable has https://packages.debian.org/buster/cmake 3.13 >> - ubuntu18.04 only has cmake 3.10 >> - ubuntu16.04 only has cmake 3.5.1 >> >> On linux it's pretty painful to use a cmake version that's not >> installable by the package manager. >> >> >> On Mon, Apr 27, 2020 at 8:55 PM Patrice Chalin <pcha...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> +Jan Tattermusch <jtattermu...@google.com>, Eric and I discussed >>> the following during our Docs WG meeting: to avoid users facing this >>> problem again, how about if we changed the min version of cmake from the >>> current 3.5.1 to, say, 3.13 >>> >>> cmake_minimum_required(VERSION 3.13) >>> >>> >>> in either the C++ hello world cmake config: >>> >>> - >>> >>> https://github.com/grpc/grpc/blob/master/examples/cpp/helloworld/CMakeLists.txt#L20 >>> >>> and/or to the (top-level) grpc cmake config? >>> >>> - https://github.com/grpc/grpc/blob/master/CMakeLists.txt#L25 >>> >>> (and maybe the other C++ examples too?) >>> >>> cc +Eric Anderson <ej...@google.com> >>> >>> >>> On Wed, Apr 22, 2020 at 11:38 AM John Leidel <john.lei...@gmail.com> >>> wrote: >>> >>>> Patrice, I updated CMake to something newer within range and the >>>> build+install appears to work. I have some other issues to get ironed >>>> out in order to sync our external packages with the updated Cmake >>>> scripts, but I suspect this was the major issue. Thanks for the help! >>>> >>>> best >>>> john >>>> >>>> On Wed, Apr 22, 2020 at 10:22 AM John Leidel <john.lei...@gmail.com> >>>> wrote: >>>> > >>>> > Patrice, thanks for the quick response. I was, in fact, using the >>>> > updated C++ Quick Start directions. However, I did find that my CMake >>>> > version was slightly out of date (3.10.X). I'm updating CMake and >>>> > will report back as soon as I can get a clean build. >>>> > >>>> > On Wed, Apr 22, 2020 at 10:08 AM Patrice Chalin <pcha...@gmail.com> >>>> wrote: >>>> > > >>>> > > Hi John, >>>> > > >>>> > > I recently updated the C++ Quick Start, which now describes how to >>>> "build and locally install gRPC before building and running this quick >>>> start’s Hello World example." I've tested the instructions on Ubuntu 18.04 >>>> LTS and haven't had any issues. Maybe you can give those instructions a >>>> try? (Which version of cmake are you using? You'll need 3.13+.) >>>> > > >>>> > > Best, >>>> > > Patrice >>>> > > >>>> > > On Wednesday, April 22, 2020 at 11:00:01 AM UTC-4, John Leidel >>>> wrote: >>>> > >> >>>> > >> All, its been quite some time since I last built+installed gRPC >>>> from source. I'm attempting to build+install on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS from >>>> source and I can't seem to get the libgrpc++* libraries to install. I'm >>>> following the directions on the gRPC building guide, but regardless of the >>>> version/options I choose, the build refuses to install the necessary >>>> libraries. So far, I've tried the current master branch (HEAD), v1.28.1, >>>> v.1.27.2, v.1.25.0 and they all fail. >>>> > >> >>>> > >> Build method: >>>> > >> $> git clone --recurse-submodules -b v1.28.1 >>>> https://github.com/grpc/grpc >>>> > >> $> cd grpc >>>> > >> $> mkdir -p cmake/build >>>> > >> $> cd cmake/build >>>> > >> $> cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/home/user/grpc -DgRPC_INSTALL=ON >>>> ../../ >>>> > >> $> make -j >>>> > >> $> make install >>>> > >> >>>> > >> ....where `/home/user/grpc` is a directory within my home >>>> directory. I see the following libs installed: >>>> > >> libcares.a libprotobuf.a libprotobuf-lite.a libprotoc.a >>>> libz.a libz.so >>>> > >> >>>> > >> libgrpc++.a (and its other variants) are built via cmake, but >>>> they're not installed. As an aside, I also tried manually enabling the CPP >>>> plugin in the cmake build, but it delivers the same results. >>>> > >> >>>> > >> I've also tried building the helloworld test from within the >>>> source tree as directed by the instructions on Github. It fails to find a >>>> cmake dependency from the install: >>>> > >> CMake Error at /home/user/grpc/lib/cmake/grpc/gRPCConfig.cmake:12 >>>> (include): >>>> > >> include could not find load file: >>>> > >> >>>> > >> /home/user/grpc/lib/cmake/grpc/gRPCTargets.cmake >>>> > >> Call Stack (most recent call first): >>>> > >> CMakeLists.txt:116 (find_package) >>>> > >> >>>> > >> >>>> > >> Any thoughts? >>>> > > >>>> > > -- >>>> > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>>> Groups "grpc.io" group. >>>> > > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, >>>> send an email to grpc-io+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >>>> > > To view this discussion on the web visit >>>> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/grpc-io/c002f687-423f-4e03-83ad-c6b11f806647%40googlegroups.com >>>> . >>>> >>> >> >> -- >> >> Jan Tattermusch >> >> Software Engineer >> >> >> Google Germany GmbH >> >> Erika-Mann-Straße 33 >> >> 80636 München >> >> Geschäftsführer: Paul Manicle, Halimah DeLaine Prado >> >> Registergericht und -nummer: Hamburg, HRB 86891 >> >> Sitz der Gesellschaft: Hamburg >> >> Diese E-Mail ist vertraulich. 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