Instructions for building on Windows are here: https://github.com/grpc/grpc/blob/v1.62.0/BUILDING.md
How are you intending to use gRPC on Windows? If with C++ then I think you need to do the build as instructed about, if with other languages (e.g. python, Java or C#) then there are prebuilt packages that you can use. On Wednesday 6 March 2024 at 00:06:41 UTC Kevin Mendel wrote: > Hi. > I'm new to gRPC. Trying to build gRPC on Windows to evaluate for a product. > > I've been writing software for 30 years, but no one has experience with > everything. > And so much of BUILDING.md is going right over my head -- I've never used > CMAKE in my life. Also, I swear many of the instructions are for Linux and > I guess I am supposed to infer what to do on Windows, except I can't. > > So if anyone is around for noob-level questions, I would greatly > appreciate. > > Just to explain my experience so far. > > First thing I tried is the vcpkg approach. But this failed so badly I > decided it wasn't prudent to go that way. > > I got farther by downloading the repo and using CMAKE. > But all the builds are blowing up with fatal errors that stdalign.h cannot > be found. > It's building against WinSDK 10.0.17763.0 -- which I know is wrong. > I have 10.0.22000.0 installed. > But I have tried a dozen different things and I cannot get the build to > use 10.0.22000.0. > > It seems to be building something though. > I'd like to use the product of the build if I could -- maybe it's > sufficient. > But the build artifacts I want to use is another thing that's unexplained. > I am supposed to "install" grpc. > But that's also unexplained. > > So here I am, fairly severely stuck. > > If you ask me what I want to do, it is "build code to use grpc". YOU tell > ME how to get there, I don't have a preference. > > Thanks in advance. > Kevin > -- 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/ed3db5b7-1767-4288-8a8f-676750e6786en%40googlegroups.com.
