We should direct people towards Bazel as much as possible for the quickstart, especially since the ./tools/bazel script should be fine for Linux and windows even if Bazel isn't installed.
On Thu, Feb 27, 2020, 16:07 Patrice Chalin <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Philip, > > I've started reviewing the grpc.io guides, the Quick Start pages in > particular. > > Would you mind opening issue(s) here: > https://github.com/grpc/grpc.io/issues/new ? I'll take a look as soon as > I can. If you'd rather that I create the issues, let me know, I'd be glad > to do so. > > Thanks, > Patrice > > On Thursday, February 27, 2020 at 6:32:07 PM UTC-5, > [email protected] wrote: >> >> 1) https://grpc.io/docs/quickstart/cpp/ says "follow the instructions to >> install gRPC C++ via make", but the linked page leads with bazel (with a >> secondary reference to cmake). >> 2) The linked page: >> https://github.com/grpc/grpc/blob/master/src/cpp/README.md#make doesn't >> work. I think it may be because http_archive has been moved/deprecated but >> the rules don't include the relevant spell to import it - see >> https://stackoverflow.com/questions/56229865/build-breaking-after-bazel-upgrade >> >> The general impression is that no-one who knows what they're doing has >> tried this out for a while (for c++ at least) and that you may be scaring >> off a bunch of potential contributors. >> IF I get it working, would some PRs for the docs be of interest? >> >> Yours, >> >> Philip >> > -- > 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 [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/grpc-io/644c24ae-65de-4c4b-8b3d-282d7c77507f%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/grpc-io/644c24ae-65de-4c4b-8b3d-282d7c77507f%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- 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 [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/grpc-io/CAEvr0PEx8qxEQSZr9UK4_VrPMjbSpeZCy77ALqFdpvcjTA0eqw%40mail.gmail.com.
