Allow people to skip codegen compilation.
Resolves #357
- Add project property ``grpc.skip.codegen``, which is false by default.
People who don't change the codegen nor the proto files can set it to
true so that they don't need to set up C++ compilation.
- Check in all generated files under ``src/generated``.
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 608ce41..a1df256 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -14,7 +14,13 @@
```
### Build Protobuf
-The codegen plugin requires protobuf 3.0.0-alpha-2.
+The codegen plugin is C++ code and requires protobuf 3.0.0-alpha-2.
+
+If you are not changing the codegen plugin, nor any of the ``.proto`` files in
+the source tree, you can skip this chapter and add ``grpc.skip.codegen=true``
+to ``$HOME/.gradle/gradle.properties``. It will make the build script skip the
+build and invocation of the codegen, and use generated code that has been
+checked in.
For Linux, Mac and MinGW:
```
@@ -47,8 +53,8 @@
#### Mac
Some versions of Mac OS X (e.g., 10.10) doesn't have ``/usr/local`` in the
-default search paths for header files and libraries. You will need to set
-environment variables:
+default search paths for header files and libraries. It will fail the build of
+the codegen. To work around this, you will need to set environment variables:
```
$ export CXXFLAGS="-I/usr/local/include" LDFLAGS="-L/usr/local/lib"
```