Installing grpc development environment for Windows

golang-grpc-win.md

Notes on installing GRPC development environment for Go on Windows

Prerequisites:

1. Go development environment installed.
2. $GOPATH/bin

• I tend to use git bash on my command line, so even though these notes are for Windows, the command line examples have a Unix flavour.
• The directory names suit my Windows development machine, on which I have a D drive that I use for most of my development work.

Install protobuf

Downloads are at https://github.com/google/protobuf/releases. A binary package for win32 is available.

Unzip at D:\Programs\protobuf

Add D:\Programs\protobuf\bin to the path.

$ protoc --version
libprotoc 3.5.1

Install Go-specific protobuf plugin

go get -u github.com/golang/protobuf/protoc-gen-go

Install GRPC Gateway

If you want to use GRPC Gateway for a REST to GRPC reverse proxy:

go get -u github.com/grpc-ecosystem/grpc-gateway/protoc-gen-grpc-gateway
go get -u github.com/grpc-ecosystem/grpc-gateway/protoc-gen-swagger

go: module github.com/golang/protobuf is deprecated: Use the "google.golang.org/protobuf" module instead.

 go get -u  "google.golang.org/protobuf"