# Packaging `google-cloud-cpp`

This document is intended for:

- Package maintainers that need to understand how to compile `google-cloud-cpp`
  from source to create their packaging scripts.
- Developers who may not be able to use a package manager and want to compile
  the `google-cloud-cpp` libraries from source, including their dependencies.
- Developers who might like to install the `google-cloud-cpp` libraries in
  `/usr/local` or a similar directory.

This document does not cover all cases for building `google-cloud-cpp`. The
following are out of scope:

- Developers who prefer using a package manager such as
  [vcpkg](https://vcpkg.io), or [Conda](https://conda.io), should follow the
  instructions for their package manager.
- Developers wanting to use the libraries as part of a larger CMake or Bazel
  project should consult the [quickstart guides](/README.md#quickstart) for the
  library or libraries they want to use.
- Developers wanting to compile the library just to run examples or tests should
  consult the [building and installing](/README.md#building-and-installing)
  section of the top-level README file.
- Contributors and developers to `google-cloud-cpp` should consult the guide to
  [set up a development workstation][howto-setup-dev-workstation].

## Getting the source code

There are two primary ways of obtaining `google-cloud-cpp`'s source code. You
can use git:

```bash
git clone https://github.com/googleapis/google-cloud-cpp.git $HOME/google-cloud-cpp
```

Or obtain the tarball release (see
https://github.com/googleapis/google-cloud-cpp/releases for the latest release):

```bash
VERSION="vX.Y.Z"
mkdir -p $HOME/google-cloud-cpp
wget -q https://github.com/googleapis/google-cloud-cpp/archive/${VERSION}.tar.gz
tar -xf ${VERSION}.tar.gz -C $HOME/google-cloud-cpp --strip=1
```

## Installing `google-cloud-cpp` with pre-existing dependencies

**If** all the dependencies of `google-cloud-cpp` are installed and provide
CMake support files, then compiling and installing the libraries requires two
commands:

```bash
cmake -S . -B cmake-out -DBUILD_TESTING=OFF -DGOOGLE_CLOUD_CPP_ENABLE_EXAMPLES=OFF
cmake --build cmake-out --target install
```

Unfortunately getting your system to this state may require multiple steps, the
following sections describe how to install `google-cloud-cpp` on several
platforms.

## Common Configuration Variables for CMake

As is often the case, the CMake build can be configured using a number of
options and command-line flags. A full treatment of these options is outside the
scope of this document, but here are a few highlights:

- Consider using `-GNinja` to switch the generator from `make` (or `msbuild` on
  Windows) to [`ninja`][ninja-build]. In our experience `ninja` takes better
  advantage of multicore machines. Be aware that `ninja` is often not installed
  in development workstations, but it is available through most package
  managers.
- If you use the default generator, consider appending `-- -j ${NCPU}` to the
  build command, where `NCPU` is an environment variable set to the number of
  processors on your system. You can obtain this information using the `nproc`
  command on Linux, or `sysctl -n hw.physicalcpu` on macOS.
- By default, CMake compiles the `google-cloud-cpp` as static libraries. The
  standard `-DBUILD_SHARED_LIBS=ON` option can be used to switch this to shared
  libraries. Having said this, on Windows there are [known issues][issues-5489]
  with DLLs and generated protos.
- With the default configuration, our CMake scripts will only compile a small
  subset of the libraries. As the number of libraries grows, we did not want to
  impose longer build times on existing customers.
  - You can use the `-DGOOGLE_CLOUD_CPP_ENABLE=...` option to configure the set
    of libraries compiled and installed by CMake.
  - For example, passing `-DGOOGLE_CLOUD_CPP_ENABLE=storage` will only compile
    the `storage` library. The target for this library is
    `google-cloud-cpp::storage`.
  - The `google/cloud/${library}/README.md` files describe what services are
    supported by each library.
  - You can provide more than one library. For example,
    `-DGOOGLE_CLOUD_CPP_ENABLE=pubsub,iam,speech` will compile the `pubsub`,
    `iam`, and `speech` libraries.
  - The default is to compile `bigtable`, `bigquery`, `iam`, `logging`,
    `pubsub`, `spanner`, and `storage`.
  - You can use `-DGOOGLE_CLOUD_CPP_ENABLE=__ga_libraries__` to compile all the
    GA libraries.
  - The `storage` library does not depend on `gRPC` or `Protobuf`. Customers
    only using this library can remove the build steps to compile these
    dependencies.

For more information about `google-cloud-cpp` configuration options, see the
[Compile time configuration](/doc/compile-time-configuration.md) guide.

## Using `google-cloud-cpp` after it is installed

Once installed, follow any of the [quickstart guides](/README.md#quickstart) to
use `google-cloud-cpp` in your CMake or Make-based project. If you are planning
to use Bazel for your own project, there is no need to install
`google-cloud-cpp`, we provide `BUILD.bazel` files for this purpose. The
quickstart guides also cover this use-case.

## Required Libraries

`google-cloud-cpp` directly depends on the following libraries:

| Library                           |   Minimum version | Description                                                |
| --------------------------------- | ----------------: | ---------------------------------------------------------- |
| [Abseil][abseil-gh]               | 20200923, Patch 3 | Abseil C++ common library [^1]                             |
| [gRPC][grpc-gh]                   |            1.35.x | An RPC library and framework [^2]                          |
| [libcurl][libcurl-gh]             |            7.47.0 | HTTP client library [^3]                                   |
| [crc32c][crc32c-gh]               |             1.0.6 | Hardware-accelerated CRC32C implementation [^4]            |
| [OpenSSL][openssl-gh]             |             1.0.2 | Crypto functions for [^3]                                  |
| [nlohmann/json][nlohmann-json-gh] |             3.4.0 | JSON for Modern C++ [^3]                                   |
| [protobuf][protobuf-gh]           |            3.15.8 | Protobuf is needed for any library based on gRPC [^5] [^6] |

`google-cloud-cpp` also has an **optional** dependency on the following
libraries:

| Library                           | Minimum version | Description                    |
| --------------------------------- | --------------- | ------------------------------ |
| [OpenTelemetry][opentelemetry-gh] | 1.9.1           | An observability framework[^7] |

Note that these libraries may also depend on other libraries. The following
instructions include steps to install these indirect dependencies too.

## Install Instructions per Platform

When possible, the instructions below prefer to use pre-packaged versions of
these libraries and their dependencies. In some cases the packages do not exist,
or the packaged versions are too old to support `google-cloud-cpp`. If this is
the case, the instructions describe how you can manually download and install
these dependencies.

<!-- inject-distro-instructions-start -->

<details>
<summary>Alpine (Stable)</summary>
<br>

Install the minimal development tools, libcurl, and OpenSSL:

```bash
apk update && \
    apk add bash ca-certificates cmake curl git \
        gcc g++ make tar unzip zip zlib-dev
```

Alpine's version of `pkg-config` (https://github.com/pkgconf/pkgconf) is slow
when handling `.pc` files with lots of `Requires:` deps, which happens with
Abseil, so we use the normal `pkg-config` binary, which seems to not suffer from
this bottleneck. For more details see
https://github.com/pkgconf/pkgconf/issues/229 and
https://github.com/googleapis/google-cloud-cpp/issues/7052

```bash
mkdir -p $HOME/Downloads/pkgconf && cd $HOME/Downloads/pkgconf
curl -fsSL https://distfiles.ariadne.space/pkgconf/pkgconf-2.2.0.tar.gz | \
    tar -xzf - --strip-components=1 && \
    ./configure --prefix=/usr && \
    make -j ${NCPU:-4} && \
sudo make install && \
    cd /var/tmp && rm -fr build
```

The following steps will install libraries and tools in `/usr/local`. By
default, pkgconf does not search in these directories. We need to explicitly set
the search path.

```bash
export PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/usr/local/lib/pkgconfig:/usr/lib/pkgconfig
```

#### Dependencies

The versions of Abseil, Protobuf, gRPC, OpenSSL, and nlohmann-json included with
Alpine >= 3.19 meet `google-cloud-cpp`'s requirements. We can simply install the
development packages

```bash
apk update && \
    apk add abseil-cpp-dev crc32c-dev c-ares-dev curl-dev grpc-dev \
        protobuf-dev nlohmann-json openssl-dev re2-dev
```

#### opentelemetry-cpp

The project has an **optional** dependency on the OpenTelemetry library. We
recommend installing this library because:

- the dependency will become required in the google-cloud-cpp v3.x series.
- it is needed to produce distributed traces of the library.

```bash
mkdir -p $HOME/Downloads/opentelemetry-cpp && cd $HOME/Downloads/opentelemetry-cpp
curl -fsSL https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-cpp/archive/v1.20.0.tar.gz | \
    tar -xzf - --strip-components=1 && \
    cmake \
        -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release \
        -DBUILD_SHARED_LIBS=yes \
        -DWITH_EXAMPLES=OFF \
        -DWITH_STL=CXX14 \
        -DWITH_ABSEIL=ON \
        -DBUILD_TESTING=OFF \
        -DOPENTELEMETRY_INSTALL=ON \
        -DOPENTELEMETRY_ABI_VERSION_NO=2 \
        -S . -B cmake-out && \
sudo cmake --build cmake-out --target install -- -j ${NCPU:-4}
```

#### Compile and install the main project

We can now compile and install `google-cloud-cpp`:

```bash
# Pick a location to install the artifacts, e.g., `/usr/local` or `/opt`
PREFIX="${HOME}/google-cloud-cpp-installed"
cmake -S . -B cmake-out \
  -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release \
  -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX="${PREFIX}" \
  -DBUILD_TESTING=OFF \
  -DGOOGLE_CLOUD_CPP_WITH_MOCKS=OFF \
  -DGOOGLE_CLOUD_CPP_ENABLE_EXAMPLES=OFF \
  -DGOOGLE_CLOUD_CPP_ENABLE=__ga_libraries__,opentelemetry
cmake --build cmake-out -- -j "$(nproc)"
cmake --build cmake-out --target install
```

</details>

<details>
<summary>Fedora (40)</summary>
<br>

Install the minimal development tools:

```bash
sudo dnf makecache && \
sudo dnf install -y cmake curl findutils gcc-c++ git make ninja-build \
        patch unzip tar wget zip
```

Fedora:40 includes packages, with recent enough versions, for most of the direct
dependencies of `google-cloud-cpp`.

```bash
sudo dnf makecache && \
sudo dnf install -y protobuf-compiler protobuf-devel grpc-cpp grpc-devel \
        json-devel libcurl-devel google-crc32c-devel openssl-devel
```

#### Patching pkg-config

If you are not planning to use `pkg-config(1)` you can skip these steps.

Fedora's version of `pkg-config` (https://github.com/pkgconf/pkgconf) is slow
when handling `.pc` files with lots of `Requires:` deps, which happens with
Abseil. If you plan to use `pkg-config` with any of the installed artifacts, you
may want to use a recent version of the standard `pkg-config` binary. If not,
`sudo dnf install pkgconfig` should work.

```bash
mkdir -p $HOME/Downloads/pkgconf && cd $HOME/Downloads/pkgconf
curl -fsSL https://distfiles.ariadne.space/pkgconf/pkgconf-2.2.0.tar.gz | \
    tar -xzf - --strip-components=1 && \
    ./configure --prefix=/usr --with-system-libdir=/lib64:/usr/lib64 --with-system-includedir=/usr/include && \
    make -j ${NCPU:-4} && \
sudo make install && \
sudo ldconfig && cd /var/tmp && rm -fr build
```

Older versions of Fedora hard-code RE2 to use C++11. It was fixed starting with
Fedora:38. If you using Fedora >= 38 or you are not planning to use
`pkg-config(1)` you can ignore this step. Alternatively, you can install RE2 and
gRPC from source.

```
sed -i 's/-std=c\+\+11 //' /usr/lib64/pkgconfig/re2.pc
```

The following steps will install libraries and tools in `/usr/local`. By
default, pkgconf does not search in these directories. We need to explicitly set
the search path.

```bash
export PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/usr/local/share/pkgconfig:/usr/lib64/pkgconfig:/usr/local/lib64/pkgconfig
```

#### opentelemetry-cpp

The project has an **optional** dependency on the OpenTelemetry library. We
recommend installing this library because:

- the dependency will become required in the google-cloud-cpp v3.x series.
- it is needed to produce distributed traces of the library.

```bash
mkdir -p $HOME/Downloads/opentelemetry-cpp && cd $HOME/Downloads/opentelemetry-cpp
curl -fsSL https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-cpp/archive/v1.20.0.tar.gz | \
    tar -xzf - --strip-components=1 && \
    cmake \
        -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release \
        -DBUILD_SHARED_LIBS=yes \
        -DWITH_EXAMPLES=OFF \
        -DWITH_STL=CXX14 \
        -DWITH_ABSEIL=ON \
        -DBUILD_TESTING=OFF \
        -DOPENTELEMETRY_INSTALL=ON \
        -DOPENTELEMETRY_ABI_VERSION_NO=2 \
        -S . -B cmake-out && \
sudo cmake --build cmake-out --target install -- -j ${NCPU:-4} && \
sudo ldconfig
```

#### Compile and install the main project

We can now compile and install `google-cloud-cpp`:

```bash
# Pick a location to install the artifacts, e.g., `/usr/local` or `/opt`
PREFIX="${HOME}/google-cloud-cpp-installed"
cmake -S . -B cmake-out \
  -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release \
  -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX="${PREFIX}" \
  -DBUILD_TESTING=OFF \
  -DGOOGLE_CLOUD_CPP_WITH_MOCKS=OFF \
  -DGOOGLE_CLOUD_CPP_ENABLE_EXAMPLES=OFF \
  -DGOOGLE_CLOUD_CPP_ENABLE=__ga_libraries__,opentelemetry
cmake --build cmake-out -- -j "$(nproc)"
cmake --build cmake-out --target install
```

</details>

<details>
<summary>openSUSE (Leap)</summary>
<br>

Install the minimal development tools.

**NOTE:** The default compiler on openSUSE (GCC 7.5.0) crashes while compiling
some of the files generated by Protobuf. Minor variations in the Protobuf
version or the libraries changes where the compiler crashes. We recommend you
use GCC 8 or higher to compile `google-cloud-cpp`.

```bash
sudo zypper refresh && \
sudo zypper install --allow-downgrade -y automake cmake curl \
        gcc gcc-c++ gcc8 gcc8-c++ git gzip libtool make patch tar wget
```

Install some of the dependencies for `google-cloud-cpp`.

```bash
sudo zypper refresh && \
sudo zypper install --allow-downgrade -y abseil-cpp-devel c-ares-devel \
        libcurl-devel libopenssl-devel libcrc32c-devel nlohmann_json-devel \
        grpc-devel libprotobuf-devel
```

The following steps will install libraries and tools in `/usr/local`. openSUSE
does not search for shared libraries in these directories by default. There are
multiple ways to solve this problem, the following steps are one solution:

```bash
(echo "/usr/local/lib" ; echo "/usr/local/lib64") | \
sudo tee /etc/ld.so.conf.d/usrlocal.conf
export PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/usr/local/lib/pkgconfig:/usr/local/lib64/pkgconfig
export PATH=/usr/local/bin:${PATH}
```

#### opentelemetry-cpp

The project has an **optional** dependency on the OpenTelemetry library. We
recommend installing this library because:

- the dependency will become required in the google-cloud-cpp v3.x series.
- it is needed to produce distributed traces of the library.

```bash
mkdir -p $HOME/Downloads/opentelemetry-cpp && cd $HOME/Downloads/opentelemetry-cpp
curl -fsSL https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-cpp/archive/v1.20.0.tar.gz | \
    tar -xzf - --strip-components=1 && \
    cmake \
        -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release \
        -DBUILD_SHARED_LIBS=yes \
        -DWITH_EXAMPLES=OFF \
        -DWITH_STL=CXX14 \
        -DWITH_ABSEIL=ON \
        -DBUILD_TESTING=OFF \
        -DOPENTELEMETRY_INSTALL=ON \
        -DOPENTELEMETRY_ABI_VERSION_NO=2 \
        -S . -B cmake-out && \
sudo cmake --build cmake-out --target install -- -j ${NCPU:-4} && \
sudo ldconfig
```

Use the following environment variables to configure the compiler used by CMake.

export CXX=g++-8

export CC=gcc-8

#### Compile and install the main project

We can now compile and install `google-cloud-cpp`:

```bash
# Pick a location to install the artifacts, e.g., `/usr/local` or `/opt`
PREFIX="${HOME}/google-cloud-cpp-installed"
cmake -S . -B cmake-out \
  -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release \
  -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX="${PREFIX}" \
  -DBUILD_TESTING=OFF \
  -DGOOGLE_CLOUD_CPP_WITH_MOCKS=OFF \
  -DGOOGLE_CLOUD_CPP_ENABLE_EXAMPLES=OFF \
  -DGOOGLE_CLOUD_CPP_ENABLE=__ga_libraries__,opentelemetry
cmake --build cmake-out -- -j "$(nproc)"
cmake --build cmake-out --target install
```

</details>

<details>
<summary>Ubuntu (24.04 LTS - Noble Numbat)</summary>
<br>

Install the minimal development tools, libcurl, OpenSSL and libc-ares:

```bash
export DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive
sudo apt-get update && \
sudo apt-get --no-install-recommends install -y apt-transport-https apt-utils \
        cmake ca-certificates curl git gcc g++ m4 make tar
```

Ubuntu:24 includes packages for most of the direct dependencies of
`google-cloud-cpp`:

```bash
export DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive
sudo apt-get update && \
sudo apt-get --no-install-recommends install -y  \
        libabsl-dev \
        libcurl4-openssl-dev \
        libgrpc++-dev protobuf-compiler-grpc \
        libprotobuf-dev protobuf-compiler \
        nlohmann-json3-dev
```

#### Patching pkg-config

If you are not planning to use `pkg-config(1)` you can skip these steps.

Ubuntu's version of `pkg-config` (https://github.com/pkgconf/pkgconf) is slow
when handling `.pc` files with lots of `Requires:` deps, which happens with
Abseil. If you plan to use `pkg-config` with any of the installed artifacts, you
may want to use a recent version of the standard `pkg-config` binary. If not,
`sudo dnf install pkgconfig` should work.

```bash
mkdir -p $HOME/Downloads/pkgconf && cd $HOME/Downloads/pkgconf
rm -f /usr/bin/pkgconf /usr/bin/pkg-config
curl -fsSL https://distfiles.ariadne.space/pkgconf/pkgconf-2.2.0.tar.gz | \
    tar -xzf - --strip-components=1 && \
    ./configure --prefix=/usr -with-pkg-config-dir=/usr/local/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/pkgconfig:/usr/local/lib/pkgconfig:/usr/local/share/pkgconfig:/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/pkgconfig:/usr/lib/pkgconfig:/usr/share/pkgconfig && \
    make -j ${NCPU:-4} && \
sudo make install && \
sudo ldconfig && cd /var/tmp && rm -fr build
ln -s /usr/bin/pkgconf /usr/bin/pkg-config
```

#### crc32c

The project depends on the Crc32c library, we need to compile this from source:

```bash
mkdir -p $HOME/Downloads/crc32c && cd $HOME/Downloads/crc32c
curl -fsSL https://github.com/google/crc32c/archive/1.1.2.tar.gz | \
    tar -xzf - --strip-components=1 && \
    cmake \
        -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release \
        -DBUILD_SHARED_LIBS=yes \
        -DCRC32C_BUILD_TESTS=OFF \
        -DCRC32C_BUILD_BENCHMARKS=OFF \
        -DCRC32C_USE_GLOG=OFF \
        -S . -B cmake-out && \
    cmake --build cmake-out -- -j ${NCPU:-4} && \
sudo cmake --build cmake-out --target install -- -j ${NCPU:-4} && \
sudo ldconfig
```

#### opentelemetry-cpp

The project has an **optional** dependency on the OpenTelemetry library. We
recommend installing this library because:

- the dependency will become required in the google-cloud-cpp v3.x series.
- it is needed to produce distributed traces of the library.

```bash
mkdir -p $HOME/Downloads/opentelemetry-cpp && cd $HOME/Downloads/opentelemetry-cpp
curl -fsSL https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-cpp/archive/v1.20.0.tar.gz | \
    tar -xzf - --strip-components=1 && \
    cmake \
        -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release \
        -DBUILD_SHARED_LIBS=yes \
        -DWITH_EXAMPLES=OFF \
        -DWITH_STL=CXX14 \
        -DWITH_ABSEIL=ON \
        -DBUILD_TESTING=OFF \
        -DOPENTELEMETRY_INSTALL=ON \
        -DOPENTELEMETRY_ABI_VERSION_NO=2 \
        -S . -B cmake-out && \
sudo cmake --build cmake-out --target install -- -j ${NCPU:-4} && \
sudo ldconfig
```

#### Compile and install the main project

We can now compile and install `google-cloud-cpp`:

```bash
# Pick a location to install the artifacts, e.g., `/usr/local` or `/opt`
PREFIX="${HOME}/google-cloud-cpp-installed"
cmake -S . -B cmake-out \
  -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release \
  -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX="${PREFIX}" \
  -DBUILD_TESTING=OFF \
  -DGOOGLE_CLOUD_CPP_WITH_MOCKS=OFF \
  -DGOOGLE_CLOUD_CPP_ENABLE_EXAMPLES=OFF \
  -DGOOGLE_CLOUD_CPP_ENABLE=__ga_libraries__,opentelemetry
cmake --build cmake-out -- -j "$(nproc)"
cmake --build cmake-out --target install
```

</details>

<details>
<summary>Ubuntu (22.04 LTS - Jammy Jellyfish)</summary>
<br>

Install the minimal development tools, libcurl, OpenSSL and libc-ares:

```bash
export DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive
sudo apt-get update && \
sudo apt-get --no-install-recommends install -y apt-transport-https apt-utils \
        automake build-essential cmake ca-certificates curl git \
        gcc g++ libc-ares-dev libc-ares2 libcurl4-openssl-dev libre2-dev \
        libssl-dev m4 make pkg-config tar wget zlib1g-dev
```

#### Abseil

We need a recent version of Abseil. Enabling `ABSL_PROPAGATE_CXX_STD` propagates
the version of C++ used to compile Abseil to anything that depends on Abseil.

```bash
mkdir -p $HOME/Downloads/abseil-cpp && cd $HOME/Downloads/abseil-cpp
curl -fsSL https://github.com/abseil/abseil-cpp/archive/20250127.1.tar.gz | \
    tar -xzf - --strip-components=1 && \
    cmake \
      -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release \
      -DABSL_BUILD_TESTING=OFF \
      -DABSL_PROPAGATE_CXX_STD=ON \
      -DBUILD_SHARED_LIBS=yes \
      -S . -B cmake-out && \
    cmake --build cmake-out -- -j ${NCPU:-4} && \
sudo cmake --build cmake-out --target install -- -j ${NCPU:-4} && \
sudo ldconfig
```

#### Protobuf

We need to install a version of Protobuf that is recent enough to support the
Google Cloud Platform proto files:

```bash
mkdir -p $HOME/Downloads/protobuf && cd $HOME/Downloads/protobuf
curl -fsSL https://github.com/protocolbuffers/protobuf/archive/v29.4.tar.gz | \
    tar -xzf - --strip-components=1 && \
    cmake \
        -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release \
        -DBUILD_SHARED_LIBS=yes \
        -Dprotobuf_BUILD_TESTS=OFF \
        -Dprotobuf_ABSL_PROVIDER=package \
        -S . -B cmake-out && \
    cmake --build cmake-out -- -j ${NCPU:-4} && \
sudo cmake --build cmake-out --target install -- -j ${NCPU:-4} && \
sudo ldconfig
```

#### gRPC

We also need a version of gRPC that is recent enough to support the Google Cloud
Platform proto files. We install it using:

```bash
mkdir -p $HOME/Downloads/grpc && cd $HOME/Downloads/grpc
curl -fsSL https://github.com/grpc/grpc/archive/v1.69.0.tar.gz | \
    tar -xzf - --strip-components=1 && \
    cmake \
        -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release \
        -DBUILD_SHARED_LIBS=yes \
        -DgRPC_INSTALL=ON \
        -DgRPC_BUILD_TESTS=OFF \
        -DgRPC_ABSL_PROVIDER=package \
        -DgRPC_CARES_PROVIDER=package \
        -DgRPC_PROTOBUF_PROVIDER=package \
        -DgRPC_RE2_PROVIDER=package \
        -DgRPC_SSL_PROVIDER=package \
        -DgRPC_ZLIB_PROVIDER=package \
        -S . -B cmake-out && \
    cmake --build cmake-out -- -j ${NCPU:-4} && \
sudo cmake --build cmake-out --target install -- -j ${NCPU:-4} && \
sudo ldconfig
```

#### crc32c

The project depends on the Crc32c library, we need to compile this from source:

```bash
mkdir -p $HOME/Downloads/crc32c && cd $HOME/Downloads/crc32c
curl -fsSL https://github.com/google/crc32c/archive/1.1.2.tar.gz | \
    tar -xzf - --strip-components=1 && \
    cmake \
        -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release \
        -DBUILD_SHARED_LIBS=yes \
        -DCRC32C_BUILD_TESTS=OFF \
        -DCRC32C_BUILD_BENCHMARKS=OFF \
        -DCRC32C_USE_GLOG=OFF \
        -S . -B cmake-out && \
    cmake --build cmake-out -- -j ${NCPU:-4} && \
sudo cmake --build cmake-out --target install -- -j ${NCPU:-4} && \
sudo ldconfig
```

#### nlohmann_json library

The project depends on the nlohmann_json library. We use CMake to install it as
this installs the necessary CMake configuration files. Note that this is a
header-only library, and often installed manually. This leaves your environment
without support for CMake pkg-config.

```bash
mkdir -p $HOME/Downloads/json && cd $HOME/Downloads/json
curl -fsSL https://github.com/nlohmann/json/archive/v3.11.3.tar.gz | \
    tar -xzf - --strip-components=1 && \
    cmake \
      -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release \
      -DBUILD_SHARED_LIBS=yes \
      -DBUILD_TESTING=OFF \
      -DJSON_BuildTests=OFF \
      -S . -B cmake-out && \
sudo cmake --build cmake-out --target install -- -j ${NCPU:-4} && \
sudo ldconfig
```

#### opentelemetry-cpp

The project has an **optional** dependency on the OpenTelemetry library. We
recommend installing this library because:

- the dependency will become required in the google-cloud-cpp v3.x series.
- it is needed to produce distributed traces of the library.

```bash
mkdir -p $HOME/Downloads/opentelemetry-cpp && cd $HOME/Downloads/opentelemetry-cpp
curl -fsSL https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-cpp/archive/v1.20.0.tar.gz | \
    tar -xzf - --strip-components=1 && \
    cmake \
        -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release \
        -DBUILD_SHARED_LIBS=yes \
        -DWITH_EXAMPLES=OFF \
        -DWITH_STL=CXX14 \
        -DWITH_ABSEIL=ON \
        -DBUILD_TESTING=OFF \
        -DOPENTELEMETRY_INSTALL=ON \
        -DOPENTELEMETRY_ABI_VERSION_NO=2 \
        -S . -B cmake-out && \
sudo cmake --build cmake-out --target install -- -j ${NCPU:-4} && \
sudo ldconfig
```

#### Compile and install the main project

We can now compile and install `google-cloud-cpp`:

```bash
# Pick a location to install the artifacts, e.g., `/usr/local` or `/opt`
PREFIX="${HOME}/google-cloud-cpp-installed"
cmake -S . -B cmake-out \
  -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release \
  -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX="${PREFIX}" \
  -DBUILD_TESTING=OFF \
  -DGOOGLE_CLOUD_CPP_WITH_MOCKS=OFF \
  -DGOOGLE_CLOUD_CPP_ENABLE_EXAMPLES=OFF \
  -DGOOGLE_CLOUD_CPP_ENABLE=__ga_libraries__,opentelemetry
cmake --build cmake-out -- -j "$(nproc)"
cmake --build cmake-out --target install
```

</details>

<details>
<summary>Ubuntu (20.04 LTS - Focal Fossa)</summary>
<br>

Install the minimal development tools, libcurl, OpenSSL and libc-ares:

```bash
export DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive
sudo apt-get update && \
sudo apt-get --no-install-recommends install -y apt-transport-https apt-utils \
        automake build-essential cmake ca-certificates curl git \
        gcc g++ libc-ares-dev libc-ares2 libcurl4-openssl-dev \
        libssl-dev m4 make pkg-config tar wget zlib1g-dev
```

#### Abseil

We need a recent version of Abseil. Enabling `ABSL_PROPAGATE_CXX_STD` propagates
the version of C++ used to compile Abseil to anything that depends on Abseil.

```bash
mkdir -p $HOME/Downloads/abseil-cpp && cd $HOME/Downloads/abseil-cpp
curl -fsSL https://github.com/abseil/abseil-cpp/archive/20250127.1.tar.gz | \
    tar -xzf - --strip-components=1 && \
    cmake \
      -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release \
      -DABSL_BUILD_TESTING=OFF \
      -DABSL_PROPAGATE_CXX_STD=ON \
      -DBUILD_SHARED_LIBS=yes \
      -S . -B cmake-out && \
    cmake --build cmake-out -- -j ${NCPU:-4} && \
sudo cmake --build cmake-out --target install -- -j ${NCPU:-4} && \
sudo ldconfig
```

#### Protobuf

We need to install a version of Protobuf that is recent enough to support the
Google Cloud Platform proto files:

```bash
mkdir -p $HOME/Downloads/protobuf && cd $HOME/Downloads/protobuf
curl -fsSL https://github.com/protocolbuffers/protobuf/archive/v29.4.tar.gz | \
    tar -xzf - --strip-components=1 && \
    cmake \
        -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release \
        -DBUILD_SHARED_LIBS=yes \
        -Dprotobuf_BUILD_TESTS=OFF \
        -Dprotobuf_ABSL_PROVIDER=package \
        -S . -B cmake-out && \
    cmake --build cmake-out -- -j ${NCPU:-4} && \
sudo cmake --build cmake-out --target install -- -j ${NCPU:-4} && \
sudo ldconfig
```

#### RE2

The version of RE2 included with this distro hard-codes C++11 in its pkg-config
file. You can skip this build and use the system's package if you are not
planning to use pkg-config.

```bash
mkdir -p $HOME/Downloads/re2 && cd $HOME/Downloads/re2
curl -fsSL https://github.com/google/re2/archive/2025-07-22.tar.gz | \
    tar -xzf - --strip-components=1 && \
    cmake -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release \
        -DBUILD_SHARED_LIBS=ON \
        -DRE2_BUILD_TESTING=OFF \
        -S . -B cmake-out && \
    cmake --build cmake-out -- -j ${NCPU:-4} && \
sudo cmake --build cmake-out --target install -- -j ${NCPU:-4} && \
sudo ldconfig
```

#### gRPC

We also need a version of gRPC that is recent enough to support the Google Cloud
Platform proto files. We install it using:

```bash
mkdir -p $HOME/Downloads/grpc && cd $HOME/Downloads/grpc
curl -fsSL https://github.com/grpc/grpc/archive/v1.69.0.tar.gz | \
    tar -xzf - --strip-components=1 && \
    cmake \
        -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release \
        -DBUILD_SHARED_LIBS=yes \
        -DgRPC_INSTALL=ON \
        -DgRPC_BUILD_TESTS=OFF \
        -DgRPC_ABSL_PROVIDER=package \
        -DgRPC_CARES_PROVIDER=package \
        -DgRPC_PROTOBUF_PROVIDER=package \
        -DgRPC_RE2_PROVIDER=package \
        -DgRPC_SSL_PROVIDER=package \
        -DgRPC_ZLIB_PROVIDER=package \
        -S . -B cmake-out && \
    cmake --build cmake-out -- -j ${NCPU:-4} && \
sudo cmake --build cmake-out --target install -- -j ${NCPU:-4} && \
sudo ldconfig
```

#### crc32c

The project depends on the Crc32c library, we need to compile this from source:

```bash
mkdir -p $HOME/Downloads/crc32c && cd $HOME/Downloads/crc32c
curl -fsSL https://github.com/google/crc32c/archive/1.1.2.tar.gz | \
    tar -xzf - --strip-components=1 && \
    cmake \
        -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release \
        -DBUILD_SHARED_LIBS=yes \
        -DCRC32C_BUILD_TESTS=OFF \
        -DCRC32C_BUILD_BENCHMARKS=OFF \
        -DCRC32C_USE_GLOG=OFF \
        -S . -B cmake-out && \
    cmake --build cmake-out -- -j ${NCPU:-4} && \
sudo cmake --build cmake-out --target install -- -j ${NCPU:-4} && \
sudo ldconfig
```

#### nlohmann_json library

The project depends on the nlohmann_json library. We use CMake to install it as
this installs the necessary CMake configuration files. Note that this is a
header-only library, and often installed manually. This leaves your environment
without support for CMake pkg-config.

```bash
mkdir -p $HOME/Downloads/json && cd $HOME/Downloads/json
curl -fsSL https://github.com/nlohmann/json/archive/v3.11.3.tar.gz | \
    tar -xzf - --strip-components=1 && \
    cmake \
      -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release \
      -DBUILD_SHARED_LIBS=yes \
      -DBUILD_TESTING=OFF \
      -DJSON_BuildTests=OFF \
      -S . -B cmake-out && \
sudo cmake --build cmake-out --target install -- -j ${NCPU:-4} && \
sudo ldconfig
```

#### opentelemetry-cpp

The project has an **optional** dependency on the OpenTelemetry library. We
recommend installing this library because:

- the dependency will become required in the google-cloud-cpp v3.x series.
- it is needed to produce distributed traces of the library.

```bash
mkdir -p $HOME/Downloads/opentelemetry-cpp && cd $HOME/Downloads/opentelemetry-cpp
curl -fsSL https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-cpp/archive/v1.20.0.tar.gz | \
    tar -xzf - --strip-components=1 && \
    cmake \
        -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release \
        -DBUILD_SHARED_LIBS=yes \
        -DWITH_EXAMPLES=OFF \
        -DWITH_STL=CXX14 \
        -DWITH_ABSEIL=ON \
        -DBUILD_TESTING=OFF \
        -DOPENTELEMETRY_INSTALL=ON \
        -DOPENTELEMETRY_ABI_VERSION_NO=2 \
        -S . -B cmake-out && \
sudo cmake --build cmake-out --target install -- -j ${NCPU:-4} && \
sudo ldconfig
```

#### Compile and install the main project

We can now compile and install `google-cloud-cpp`:

```bash
# Pick a location to install the artifacts, e.g., `/usr/local` or `/opt`
PREFIX="${HOME}/google-cloud-cpp-installed"
cmake -S . -B cmake-out \
  -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release \
  -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX="${PREFIX}" \
  -DBUILD_TESTING=OFF \
  -DGOOGLE_CLOUD_CPP_WITH_MOCKS=OFF \
  -DGOOGLE_CLOUD_CPP_ENABLE_EXAMPLES=OFF \
  -DGOOGLE_CLOUD_CPP_ENABLE=__ga_libraries__,opentelemetry
cmake --build cmake-out -- -j "$(nproc)"
cmake --build cmake-out --target install
```

</details>

<details>
<summary>Debian (12 - Bookworm)</summary>
<br>

Install the minimal development tools.

```bash
sudo apt-get update && \
sudo apt-get --no-install-recommends install -y apt-transport-https apt-utils \
        automake build-essential ca-certificates cmake curl git \
        gcc g++ m4 make ninja-build pkg-config tar wget zlib1g-dev
```

Install the development packages for direct `google-cloud-cpp` dependencies:

```bash
sudo apt-get update && \
sudo apt-get --no-install-recommends install -y \
        libabsl-dev \
        libprotobuf-dev protobuf-compiler \
        libgrpc++-dev libgrpc-dev protobuf-compiler-grpc \
        libcurl4-openssl-dev libssl-dev nlohmann-json3-dev
```

#### Patching pkg-config

If you are not planning to use `pkg-config(1)` you can skip these steps.

Debian's version of `pkg-config` (https://github.com/pkgconf/pkgconf) is slow
when handling `.pc` files with lots of `Requires:` deps, which happens with
Abseil. If you plan to use `pkg-config` with any of the installed artifacts, you
may want to use a recent version of the standard `pkg-config` binary. If not,
`sudo dnf install pkgconfig` should work.

```bash
mkdir -p $HOME/Downloads/pkgconf && cd $HOME/Downloads/pkgconf
curl -fsSL https://distfiles.ariadne.space/pkgconf/pkgconf-2.2.0.tar.gz | \
    tar -xzf - --strip-components=1 && \
    ./configure --prefix=/usr --with-system-libdir=/lib:/usr/lib --with-system-includedir=/usr/include && \
    make -j ${NCPU:-4} && \
sudo make install && \
sudo ldconfig && cd /var/tmp && rm -fr build
export PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/pkgconfig:/usr/local/lib/pkgconfig
```

#### crc32c

The project depends on the Crc32c library, we need to compile this from source:

```bash
mkdir -p $HOME/Downloads/crc32c && cd $HOME/Downloads/crc32c
curl -fsSL https://github.com/google/crc32c/archive/1.1.2.tar.gz | \
    tar -xzf - --strip-components=1 && \
    cmake \
        -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release \
        -DBUILD_SHARED_LIBS=yes \
        -DCRC32C_BUILD_TESTS=OFF \
        -DCRC32C_BUILD_BENCHMARKS=OFF \
        -DCRC32C_USE_GLOG=OFF \
        -S . -B cmake-out && \
    cmake --build cmake-out -- -j ${NCPU:-4} && \
sudo cmake --build cmake-out --target install -- -j ${NCPU:-4} && \
sudo ldconfig
```

#### opentelemetry-cpp

The project has an **optional** dependency on the OpenTelemetry library. We
recommend installing this library because:

- the dependency will become required in the google-cloud-cpp v3.x series.
- it is needed to produce distributed traces of the library.

```bash
mkdir -p $HOME/Downloads/opentelemetry-cpp && cd $HOME/Downloads/opentelemetry-cpp
curl -fsSL https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-cpp/archive/v1.20.0.tar.gz | \
    tar -xzf - --strip-components=1 && \
    cmake \
        -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release \
        -DBUILD_SHARED_LIBS=yes \
        -DWITH_EXAMPLES=OFF \
        -DWITH_STL=CXX14 \
        -DWITH_ABSEIL=ON \
        -DBUILD_TESTING=OFF \
        -DOPENTELEMETRY_INSTALL=ON \
        -DOPENTELEMETRY_ABI_VERSION_NO=2 \
        -S . -B cmake-out && \
sudo cmake --build cmake-out --target install -- -j ${NCPU:-4} && \
sudo ldconfig
```

#### Compile and install the main project

We can now compile and install `google-cloud-cpp`:

```bash
# Pick a location to install the artifacts, e.g., `/usr/local` or `/opt`
PREFIX="${HOME}/google-cloud-cpp-installed"
cmake -S . -B cmake-out \
  -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release \
  -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX="${PREFIX}" \
  -DBUILD_TESTING=OFF \
  -DGOOGLE_CLOUD_CPP_WITH_MOCKS=OFF \
  -DGOOGLE_CLOUD_CPP_ENABLE_EXAMPLES=OFF \
  -DGOOGLE_CLOUD_CPP_ENABLE=__ga_libraries__,opentelemetry
cmake --build cmake-out -- -j "$(nproc)"
cmake --build cmake-out --target install
```

</details>

<details>
<summary>Debian (11 - Bullseye)</summary>
<br>

Install the minimal development tools, libcurl, and OpenSSL:

```bash
sudo apt-get update && \
sudo apt-get --no-install-recommends install -y apt-transport-https apt-utils \
        automake build-essential ca-certificates cmake curl git \
        gcc g++ libc-ares-dev libc-ares2 libcurl4-openssl-dev \
        libssl-dev m4 make ninja-build pkg-config tar wget zlib1g-dev
```

#### Abseil

Debian 11 ships with Abseil==20200923.3. Unfortunately, the current gRPC version
needs Abseil >= 20210324. Enabling `ABSL_PROPAGATE_CXX_STD` propagates the
version of C++ used to compile Abseil to anything that depends on Abseil.

```bash
mkdir -p $HOME/Downloads/abseil-cpp && cd $HOME/Downloads/abseil-cpp
curl -fsSL https://github.com/abseil/abseil-cpp/archive/20250127.1.tar.gz | \
    tar -xzf - --strip-components=1 && \
    cmake \
      -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release \
      -DABSL_BUILD_TESTING=OFF \
      -DABSL_PROPAGATE_CXX_STD=ON \
      -DBUILD_SHARED_LIBS=yes \
      -S . -B cmake-out && \
    cmake --build cmake-out -- -j ${NCPU:-4} && \
sudo cmake --build cmake-out --target install -- -j ${NCPU:-4} && \
sudo ldconfig
```

#### crc32c

The project depends on the Crc32c library, we need to compile this from source:

```bash
mkdir -p $HOME/Downloads/crc32c && cd $HOME/Downloads/crc32c
curl -fsSL https://github.com/google/crc32c/archive/1.1.2.tar.gz | \
    tar -xzf - --strip-components=1 && \
    cmake \
        -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release \
        -DBUILD_SHARED_LIBS=yes \
        -DCRC32C_BUILD_TESTS=OFF \
        -DCRC32C_BUILD_BENCHMARKS=OFF \
        -DCRC32C_USE_GLOG=OFF \
        -S . -B cmake-out && \
    cmake --build cmake-out -- -j ${NCPU:-4} && \
sudo cmake --build cmake-out --target install -- -j ${NCPU:-4} && \
sudo ldconfig
```

#### nlohmann_json library

Debian 11 also ships with nlohmann-json==3.9.1, which is recent enough for our
needs:

```bash
sudo apt-get update && \
sudo apt-get --no-install-recommends install -y nlohmann-json3-dev
```

#### Protobuf

Unless you are only using the Google Cloud Storage library the project needs
Protobuf and gRPC. Unfortunately the version of Protobuf that ships with Debian
11 is not recent enough to support the protos published by Google Cloud. We need
to build from source:

```bash
mkdir -p $HOME/Downloads/protobuf && cd $HOME/Downloads/protobuf
curl -fsSL https://github.com/protocolbuffers/protobuf/archive/v29.4.tar.gz | \
    tar -xzf - --strip-components=1 && \
    cmake \
        -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release \
        -DBUILD_SHARED_LIBS=yes \
        -Dprotobuf_BUILD_TESTS=OFF \
        -Dprotobuf_ABSL_PROVIDER=package \
        -S . -B cmake-out && \
sudo cmake --build cmake-out --target install -- -j ${NCPU:-4} && \
sudo ldconfig
```

#### RE2

The version of RE2 included with this distro hard-codes C++11 in its pkg-config
file. You can skip this build and use the system's package if you are not
planning to use pkg-config.

```bash
mkdir -p $HOME/Downloads/re2 && cd $HOME/Downloads/re2
curl -fsSL https://github.com/google/re2/archive/2025-07-22.tar.gz | \
    tar -xzf - --strip-components=1 && \
    cmake -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release \
        -DBUILD_SHARED_LIBS=ON \
        -DRE2_BUILD_TESTING=OFF \
        -S . -B cmake-out && \
    cmake --build cmake-out -- -j ${NCPU:-4} && \
sudo cmake --build cmake-out --target install -- -j ${NCPU:-4} && \
sudo ldconfig
```

#### gRPC

Finally, we build gRPC from source:

```bash
mkdir -p $HOME/Downloads/grpc && cd $HOME/Downloads/grpc
curl -fsSL https://github.com/grpc/grpc/archive/v1.69.0.tar.gz | \
    tar -xzf - --strip-components=1 && \
    cmake \
        -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release \
        -DBUILD_SHARED_LIBS=yes \
        -DgRPC_INSTALL=ON \
        -DgRPC_BUILD_TESTS=OFF \
        -DgRPC_ABSL_PROVIDER=package \
        -DgRPC_CARES_PROVIDER=package \
        -DgRPC_PROTOBUF_PROVIDER=package \
        -DgRPC_RE2_PROVIDER=package \
        -DgRPC_SSL_PROVIDER=package \
        -DgRPC_ZLIB_PROVIDER=package \
        -S . -B cmake-out && \
sudo cmake --build cmake-out --target install -- -j ${NCPU:-4} && \
sudo ldconfig
```

#### opentelemetry-cpp

The project has an **optional** dependency on the OpenTelemetry library. We
recommend installing this library because:

- the dependency will become required in the google-cloud-cpp v3.x series.
- it is needed to produce distributed traces of the library.

```bash
mkdir -p $HOME/Downloads/opentelemetry-cpp && cd $HOME/Downloads/opentelemetry-cpp
curl -fsSL https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-cpp/archive/v1.20.0.tar.gz | \
    tar -xzf - --strip-components=1 && \
    cmake \
        -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release \
        -DBUILD_SHARED_LIBS=yes \
        -DWITH_EXAMPLES=OFF \
        -DWITH_STL=CXX14 \
        -DWITH_ABSEIL=ON \
        -DBUILD_TESTING=OFF \
        -DOPENTELEMETRY_INSTALL=ON \
        -DOPENTELEMETRY_ABI_VERSION_NO=2 \
        -S . -B cmake-out && \
sudo cmake --build cmake-out --target install -- -j ${NCPU:-4} && \
sudo ldconfig
```

#### Compile and install the main project

We can now compile and install `google-cloud-cpp`:

```bash
# Pick a location to install the artifacts, e.g., `/usr/local` or `/opt`
PREFIX="${HOME}/google-cloud-cpp-installed"
cmake -S . -B cmake-out \
  -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release \
  -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX="${PREFIX}" \
  -DBUILD_TESTING=OFF \
  -DGOOGLE_CLOUD_CPP_WITH_MOCKS=OFF \
  -DGOOGLE_CLOUD_CPP_ENABLE_EXAMPLES=OFF \
  -DGOOGLE_CLOUD_CPP_ENABLE=__ga_libraries__,opentelemetry
cmake --build cmake-out -- -j "$(nproc)"
cmake --build cmake-out --target install
```

</details>

<details>
<summary>Rocky Linux (9)</summary>
<br>

Install the minimal development tools, libcurl, OpenSSL, and the c-ares library
(required by gRPC):

```bash
sudo dnf makecache && \
sudo dnf update -y && \
sudo dnf install -y epel-release && \
sudo dnf makecache && \
sudo dnf install -y cmake findutils gcc-c++ git make openssl-devel \
        patch zlib-devel libcurl-devel c-ares-devel tar wget which \
        autoconf automake libtool binutils
```

Set some useful environment variables.

```bash
export PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin
export CC=/usr/bin/gcc
export CXX=/usr/bin/g++
```

Rocky Linux's version of `pkg-config` (https://github.com/pkgconf/pkgconf) is
slow when handling `.pc` files with lots of `Requires:` deps, which happens with
Abseil. If you plan to use `pkg-config` with any of the installed artifacts, you
may want to use a recent version of the standard `pkg-config` binary. If not,
`sudo dnf install pkgconfig` should work.

```bash
mkdir -p $HOME/Downloads/pkgconf && cd $HOME/Downloads/pkgconf
curl -fsSL https://distfiles.ariadne.space/pkgconf/pkgconf-2.2.0.tar.gz | \
    tar -xzf - --strip-components=1 && \
    ./configure --prefix=/usr --with-system-libdir=/lib64:/usr/lib64 --with-system-includedir=/usr/include && \
    make -j ${NCPU:-4} && \
sudo make install && \
sudo ldconfig && cd /var/tmp && rm -fr build
```

The following steps will install libraries and tools in `/usr/local`. By
default, Rocky Linux 9 does not search for shared libraries in these
directories, there are multiple ways to solve this problem, the following steps
are one solution:

```bash
(echo "/usr/local/lib" ; echo "/usr/local/lib64") | \
sudo tee /etc/ld.so.conf.d/usrlocal.conf
export PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/usr/local/lib/pkgconfig:/usr/local/lib64/pkgconfig:/usr/lib64/pkgconfig
export PATH=/usr/local/bin:${PATH}
```

#### Abseil

Rocky Linux 9 includes a package for Abseil, unfortunately, this package is
incomplete, as it lacks the CMake support files for it. We need to compile
Abseiil from source. Enabling `ABSL_PROPAGATE_CXX_STD` propagates the version of
C++ used to compile Abseil to anything that depends on Abseil.

```bash
mkdir -p $HOME/Downloads/abseil-cpp && cd $HOME/Downloads/abseil-cpp
curl -fsSL https://github.com/abseil/abseil-cpp/archive/20250127.1.tar.gz | \
    tar -xzf - --strip-components=1 && \
    cmake \
      -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release \
      -DABSL_BUILD_TESTING=OFF \
      -DABSL_PROPAGATE_CXX_STD=ON \
      -DBUILD_SHARED_LIBS=yes \
      -S . -B cmake-out && \
    cmake --build cmake-out -- -j ${NCPU:-4} && \
sudo cmake --build cmake-out --target install -- -j ${NCPU:-4} && \
sudo ldconfig
```

#### Protobuf

Rocky Linux ships with Protobuf 3.14.x. Some of the libraries in
`google-cloud-cpp` require Protobuf >= 3.15.8. For simplicity, we will just
install Protobuf (and any downstream packages) from source.

```bash
mkdir -p $HOME/Downloads/protobuf && cd $HOME/Downloads/protobuf
curl -fsSL https://github.com/protocolbuffers/protobuf/archive/v29.4.tar.gz | \
    tar -xzf - --strip-components=1 && \
    cmake \
        -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release \
        -DBUILD_SHARED_LIBS=yes \
        -Dprotobuf_BUILD_TESTS=OFF \
        -Dprotobuf_ABSL_PROVIDER=package \
        -S . -B cmake-out && \
    cmake --build cmake-out -- -j ${NCPU:-4} && \
sudo cmake --build cmake-out --target install -- -j ${NCPU:-4} && \
sudo ldconfig
```

#### RE2

The version of RE2 included with this distro hard-codes C++11 in its pkg-config
file. You can skip this build and use the system's package if you are not
planning to use pkg-config.

```bash
mkdir -p $HOME/Downloads/re2 && cd $HOME/Downloads/re2
curl -fsSL https://github.com/google/re2/archive/2025-07-22.tar.gz | \
    tar -xzf - --strip-components=1 && \
    cmake -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release \
        -DBUILD_SHARED_LIBS=ON \
        -DRE2_BUILD_TESTING=OFF \
        -S . -B cmake-out && \
    cmake --build cmake-out -- -j ${NCPU:-4} && \
sudo cmake --build cmake-out --target install -- -j ${NCPU:-4} && \
sudo ldconfig
```

#### gRPC

We also need a version of gRPC that is recent enough to support the Google Cloud
Platform proto files. Note that gRPC overrides the default C++ standard version
to C++14, we need to configure it to use the platform's default. We manually
install it using:

```bash
mkdir -p $HOME/Downloads/grpc && cd $HOME/Downloads/grpc
curl -fsSL https://github.com/grpc/grpc/archive/v1.69.0.tar.gz | \
    tar -xzf - --strip-components=1 && \
    cmake \
        -DCMAKE_CXX_STANDARD=17 \
        -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release \
        -DBUILD_SHARED_LIBS=yes \
        -DgRPC_INSTALL=ON \
        -DgRPC_BUILD_TESTS=OFF \
        -DgRPC_ABSL_PROVIDER=package \
        -DgRPC_CARES_PROVIDER=package \
        -DgRPC_PROTOBUF_PROVIDER=package \
        -DgRPC_RE2_PROVIDER=package \
        -DgRPC_SSL_PROVIDER=package \
        -DgRPC_ZLIB_PROVIDER=package \
        -S . -B cmake-out && \
    cmake --build cmake-out -- -j ${NCPU:-4} && \
sudo cmake --build cmake-out --target install -- -j ${NCPU:-4} && \
sudo ldconfig
```

#### crc32c

The project depends on the Crc32c library, we need to compile this from source:

```bash
mkdir -p $HOME/Downloads/crc32c && cd $HOME/Downloads/crc32c
curl -fsSL https://github.com/google/crc32c/archive/1.1.2.tar.gz | \
    tar -xzf - --strip-components=1 && \
    cmake \
        -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release \
        -DBUILD_SHARED_LIBS=yes \
        -DCRC32C_BUILD_TESTS=OFF \
        -DCRC32C_BUILD_BENCHMARKS=OFF \
        -DCRC32C_USE_GLOG=OFF \
        -S . -B cmake-out && \
    cmake --build cmake-out -- -j ${NCPU:-4} && \
sudo cmake --build cmake-out --target install -- -j ${NCPU:-4} && \
sudo ldconfig
```

#### nlohmann_json library

The project depends on the nlohmann_json library. We use CMake to install it as
this installs the necessary CMake configuration files. Note that this is a
header-only library, and often installed manually. This leaves your environment
without support for CMake pkg-config.

```bash
mkdir -p $HOME/Downloads/json && cd $HOME/Downloads/json
curl -fsSL https://github.com/nlohmann/json/archive/v3.11.3.tar.gz | \
    tar -xzf - --strip-components=1 && \
    cmake \
      -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release \
      -DBUILD_SHARED_LIBS=yes \
      -DBUILD_TESTING=OFF \
      -DJSON_BuildTests=OFF \
      -S . -B cmake-out && \
sudo cmake --build cmake-out --target install -- -j ${NCPU:-4} && \
sudo ldconfig
```

#### opentelemetry-cpp

The project has an **optional** dependency on the OpenTelemetry library. We
recommend installing this library because:

- the dependency will become required in the google-cloud-cpp v3.x series.
- it is needed to produce distributed traces of the library.

```bash
mkdir -p $HOME/Downloads/opentelemetry-cpp && cd $HOME/Downloads/opentelemetry-cpp
curl -fsSL https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-cpp/archive/v1.20.0.tar.gz | \
    tar -xzf - --strip-components=1 && \
    cmake \
        -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release \
        -DBUILD_SHARED_LIBS=yes \
        -DWITH_EXAMPLES=OFF \
        -DWITH_STL=CXX14 \
        -DWITH_ABSEIL=ON \
        -DBUILD_TESTING=OFF \
        -DOPENTELEMETRY_INSTALL=ON \
        -DOPENTELEMETRY_ABI_VERSION_NO=2 \
        -S . -B cmake-out && \
sudo cmake --build cmake-out --target install -- -j ${NCPU:-4} && \
sudo ldconfig
```

#### Compile and install the main project

We can now compile and install `google-cloud-cpp`:

```bash
# Pick a location to install the artifacts, e.g., `/usr/local` or `/opt`
PREFIX="${HOME}/google-cloud-cpp-installed"
cmake -S . -B cmake-out \
  -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release \
  -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX="${PREFIX}" \
  -DBUILD_TESTING=OFF \
  -DGOOGLE_CLOUD_CPP_WITH_MOCKS=OFF \
  -DGOOGLE_CLOUD_CPP_ENABLE_EXAMPLES=OFF \
  -DGOOGLE_CLOUD_CPP_ENABLE=__ga_libraries__,opentelemetry
cmake --build cmake-out -- -j "$(nproc)"
cmake --build cmake-out --target install
```

</details>

<!-- inject-distro-instructions-end -->

<details>
<summary>macOS</summary>
<br>

First install Xcode to get all the needed development tools. These instructions
also use [Homebrew](https://brew.sh/) to install the needed third-party
dependencies.

If you don't already have Xcode installed:

```bash
xcode-select --install
```

Follow the instructions at https://brew.sh to install Homebrew. Then install the
needed dependencies:

```bash
# Some additional build tools
brew install cmake ninja
# Installs google-cloud-cpp's needed deps
brew install abseil protobuf grpc nlohmann-json crc32c openssl@1.1
```

:warning: By default, Abseil's ABI changes depending on whether it is used with
C++ >= 17 enabled or not. Installing Abseil with the default configuration is
error-prone, unless you can guarantee that all the code using Abseil (gRPC,
google-cloud-cpp, your own code, etc.) is compiled with the same C++ version.
Homebrew's version of Abseil is compiled with C++17 and requires that all
dependencies are thus compiled. See [abseil/abseil-cpp#696], and the
[homebrew formula] for more information.

Now configure, build, and install the `google-cloud-cpp` libraries that you
need. In this example, we install the [storage][storage-link] and
[spanner][spanner-link] libraries. Please see the
[Compile time configuration](/doc/compile-time-configuration.md) guide for more
details about how to configure the `google-cloud-cpp` builds.

```bash
cmake -S . -B cmake-out \
  -GNinja \
  -DGOOGLE_CLOUD_CPP_ENABLE="storage;spanner" \
  -DCMAKE_CXX_STANDARD=17 \
  -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=release \
  -DBUILD_TESTING=OFF \
  -DOPENSSL_ROOT_DIR="$(brew --prefix openssl@1.1)" \
  -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/tmp/test-install
cmake --build cmake-out
cmake --build cmake-out --target install
```

</details>

[^1]: Requires >= `20210324.2` for `pkg-config` files to work correctly.

[^2]: Some libraries, including the Google Cloud Storage client, can be compiled
    without gRPC support.

[^3]: Only some libraries (Compute, SQL Admin, and Google Cloud Storage) require
    this dependency.

[^4]: Only the Google Cloud Storage client library requires this dependency.

[^5]: The Google Cloud Storage client does not require Protobuf.

[^6]: On some platforms, some libraries may need a newer version of Protobuf to
    workaround conflicts between system pre-processor macros and symbols used in
    the Protobuf-generated code.

[^7]: See the [OpenTelemetry quickstart][otel-qs] for detailed instructions on how
    to enable and build this optional dependency.

[abseil-gh]: https://github.com/abseil/abseil-cpp
[abseil/abseil-cpp#696]: https://github.com/abseil/abseil-cpp/issues/696
[crc32c-gh]: https://github.com/google/crc32c
[grpc-gh]: https://github.com/grpc/grpc
[homebrew formula]: https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/blob/HEAD/Formula/abseil.rb
[howto-setup-dev-workstation]: /doc/contributor/howto-guide-setup-development-workstation.md
[issues-5489]: https://github.com/googleapis/google-cloud-cpp/issues/5849
[libcurl-gh]: https://github.com/curl/curl
[ninja-build]: https://ninja-build.org/
[nlohmann-json-gh]: https://github.com/nlohmann/json
[openssl-gh]: https://github.com/openssl/openssl
[opentelemetry-gh]: https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-cpp
[otel-qs]: https://github.com/googleapis/google-cloud-cpp/tree/main/google/cloud/opentelemetry/quickstart#opentelemetry-dependency
[protobuf-gh]: https://github.com/protocolbuffers/protobuf
[spanner-link]: https://github.com/googleapis/google-cloud-cpp/tree/main/google/cloud/spanner#readme
[storage-link]: https://github.com/googleapis/google-cloud-cpp/tree/main/google/cloud/storage#readme
