Install GRPC:

• Install Prerequisites

sudo apt-get install build-essential autoconf libtool pkg-config

• If you don't have cmake install via:

sudo apt-get install cmake

• set install directory for grpc

INSTALL_DIR=$HOME

• clone grpc repository

cd $INSTALL_DIR
git clone --recurse-submodules -b v1.45.0 --depth 1 --shallow-submodules https://github.com/grpc/grpc

• install protobuf

cd $INSTALL_DIR/grpc/third_party/protobuf
./autogen.sh
 ./configure
make
make check
sudo make install
sudo ldconfig # refresh shared library cache.

• install grpc

cd $INSTALL_DIR/grpc/third_party/protobuf
mkdir -p cmake/build
cd cmake/build
cmake ../..
make
sudo make install

• test if you can compile an example

cd $INSTALL_DIR/grpc/examples/cpp/helloworld
mkdir -p cmake/build
cd cmake/build
cmake ../..
make

Install yaml-cpp:

# first cd to the directory you want to install yaml-cpp (for example ~)
cd ~
git clone https://github.com/jbeder/yaml-cpp.git --branch yaml-cpp-0.6.0 && \
cd yaml-cpp && \
mkdir build && \
cd build && \
cmake .. && \
sudo make install

Compile:

• in the project directory

./build.sh

Run:

• execute "main" in the ./build folder (with proper command line arguments)