TechOverflow Logo
TechOverflow

How to fix fatal error: grpcpp/generic/async_generic_service.h: No such file or directory

Problem

When trying to build a C++ project that depends on gRPC, you might encounter the following error:

example.txt
In file included from /home/uli/MyProject/lib/MyLib/cpp/generated/Parameters.grpc.pb.cc:6:
/home/uli/MyProject/lib/MyLib/cpp/generated/Parameters.grpc.pb.h:10:10: fatal error: grpcpp/generic/async_generic_service.h: No such file or directory
   10 | #include <grpcpp/generic/async_generic_service.h>
      |          ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
compilation terminated.
make[2]: *** [lib/MyLib/cpp/CMakeFiles/grpc_proto.dir/build.make:214: lib/MyProject/cpp/CMakeFiles/grpc_proto.dir/generated/Protocol.grpc.pb.cc.o] Error 1
make[2]: *** [lib/MyProject/cpp/CMakeFiles/grpc_proto.dir/build.make:242: lib/MyLib/cpp/CMakeFiles/grpc_proto.dir/generated/Parameters.grpc.pb.cc.o] Erro

Solution

You need to install libgrpc++-dev to get the necessary header files for gRPC. You can do this using the following command:

install-grpc-dev.sh
sudo apt -y install libgrpc++-dev
Check out similar posts by category: C/C++