1# gRPC in 3 minutes (C++) 2 3## Installation 4 5To install gRPC on your system, follow the instructions to build from source 6[here](../../BUILDING.md). This also installs the protocol buffer compiler 7`protoc` (if you don't have it already), and the C++ gRPC plugin for `protoc`. 8 9## Hello C++ gRPC! 10 11Here's how to build and run the C++ implementation of the [Hello 12World](../protos/helloworld.proto) example used in [Getting started](..). 13 14### Client and server implementations 15 16The client implementation is at [greeter_client.cc](helloworld/greeter_client.cc). 17 18The server implementation is at [greeter_server.cc](helloworld/greeter_server.cc). 19 20### Try it! 21Build client and server: 22 23```sh 24$ make 25``` 26 27Run the server, which will listen on port 50051: 28 29```sh 30$ ./greeter_server 31``` 32 33Run the client (in a different terminal): 34 35```sh 36$ ./greeter_client 37``` 38 39If things go smoothly, you will see the "Greeter received: Hello world" in the 40client side output. 41 42## Tutorial 43 44You can find a more detailed tutorial in [gRPC Basics: C++](cpptutorial.md) 45