[Newbie question] The confusion about direct make and using cmake to build grpc

[xiaona...@gmail.com]

Hi all,

Greetings from me! I am a newbie of grpc, and a little confused about building.

From build from source, I check the compiling is like this:

$ cd grpc

$ git submodule update --init

$ make

But I also find CMakeLists.txt in the root directory. So I try the following "standard" cmake build flow: 

$ cd grpc

$ mkdir build

$ cd build

$ cmake ..

$ make

It also works.  

So could anyone help to explain the difference between these 2 kinds of building flow?

Thanks very much in advance!

Best Regards

Nan Xiao 

[Noah Eisen]

TL;DR: No, there should be no difference.

Longer answer:

Believe it or not there is a third way! We also support building with Bazel.

Makefile and Bazel are both official supported. CMake exists, and we maintain it, but there is no obligation that it will stay up to date. So I would suggest sticking to Bazel or Make.

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[Nan Xiao]

Hi Noah,

Thanks for your response!

The thing is I use "make" method will generate build errors while
"cmake" not on my ArchLinux. So I just wonder whether there are
differences between 2 methods.
Best Regards
Nan Xiao

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