How to build gRPC for VS2017?

[shubham...@gmail.com]

Hi,

I am trying to build gRPC to use with VS2017. Able to compile gRPC and generated the grpc.lib along with other libraries.But facing linking errors when trying to include these libraries in my client server code.

Please can someone suggest where I am going wrong or can share the correct way to build gRPC for VS2017.

Thanks.

[Jan Tattermusch]

Hi, we do have distrib tests in place that demonstrate how to use gRPC C++ from a user's project.

There are multiple ways to achieve that:

https://github.com/grpc/grpc/blob/master/test/distrib/cpp/run_distrib_test_cmake_as_externalproject.bat

https://github.com/grpc/grpc/blob/master/test/distrib/cpp/run_distrib_test_cmake.bat

Example cmake files are here:

https://github.com/grpc/grpc/blob/master/examples/cpp/helloworld/cmake_externalproject/CMakeLists.txt

and

https://github.com/grpc/grpc/blob/master/examples/cpp/helloworld/CMakeLists.txt

Please include the exact linking errors you are seeing next time, otherwise it's hard to help.