Grpc: installDist fails to build

[kstenerud]

Should this be an issue in the gRPC issue tracker?

Yes

What version of gRPC and what language are you using?

gRPC 1.3.0
Using java

What operating system (Linux, Windows, …) and version?

Linux (Ubuntu 17.04)

What runtime / compiler are you using (e.g. python version or version of gcc)

openjdk version "1.8.0_121"
gcc (Ubuntu 6.3.0-12ubuntu2) 6.3.0 20170406

What did you do?

./gradlew installDist (as per http://www.grpc.io/docs/quickstart/java.html)

What did you expect to see?

A successful build

What did you see instead?

:grpc-compiler:compileJava_pluginExecutableJava_pluginCpp
/home/karl/tmpo/grpc-java/compiler/src/java_plugin/cpp/java_generator.h:8:49: fatal error: google/protobuf/io/zero_copy_stream.h: No such file or directory
 #include <google/protobuf/io/zero_copy_stream.h>
                                                 ^
compilation terminated.

In file included from /home/karl/tmpo/grpc-java/compiler/src/java_plugin/cpp/java_generator.cpp:1:0:
/home/karl/tmpo/grpc-java/compiler/src/java_plugin/cpp/java_generator.h:8:49: fatal error: google/protobuf/io/zero_copy_stream.h: No such file or directory
 #include <google/protobuf/io/zero_copy_stream.h>
                                                 ^
compilation terminated.

In file included from /home/karl/tmpo/grpc-java/compiler/src/java_plugin/cpp/java_plugin.cpp:8:0:
/home/karl/tmpo/grpc-java/compiler/src/java_plugin/cpp/java_generator.h:8:49: fatal error: google/protobuf/io/zero_copy_stream.h: No such file or directory
 #include <google/protobuf/io/zero_copy_stream.h>
                                                 ^
compilation terminated.

:grpc-compiler:compileJava_pluginExecutableJava_pluginCpp FAILED

FAILURE: Build failed with an exception.

Make sure you include information that can help us debug (full error message, exception listing, stack trace, logs).

Anything else we should know about your project / environment?

It's a pretty fresh install of Ubuntu 17.04. No dev tools have been added to it beyond netbeans.

[ejona86]

You weren't in the examples directory. Make sure to cd examples first.