Install Protobuf and gRPC on Ubuntu using CMake

Pre-requisites

Clone https://github.com/grpc/grpc and follow the instructions:

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

git clone https://github.com/grpc/grpc
cd grpc
git submodule update --init

Install Protobuf

Go to the submodule:

cd third_party/protobuf

Follow instructions from https://github.com/protocolbuffers/protobuf

sudo apt-get install autoconf automake libtool curl make g++ unzip
git submodule update --init --recursive
./autogen.sh
./configure
make
make check
sudo make install
sudo ldconfig 

Install gRPC Dependencies

Script test/distrib/cpp/run_distrib_test_cmake.sh can be used:

./test/distrib/cpp/run_distrib_test_cmake.sh

For me the command above failed.

Manual Installation

cmake -DgRPC_INSTALL=ON -DgRPC_BUILD_TESTS=OFF -DgRPC_PROTOBUF_PROVIDER=package -DgRPC_ZLIB_PROVIDER=package -DgRPC_CARES_PROVIDER=package -DgRPC_SSL_PROVIDER=package -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release ../..

cmake --build . -j 4 -v

sudo make install
sudo ldconfig

Missing Dependency

Dependency for abseil-cpp was missing:

mkdir build
cd build
cmake -DABSL_USE_GOOGLETEST_HEAD=ON -DABSL_RUN_TESTS=ON ..

make -j4

sudo make install
sudo ldconfig