From 3be6801b72e91b0e3a1c6b497db02e144e32f7af Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Lisa Carey <lcarey@google.com>
Date: Tue, 8 Mar 2016 17:47:14 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Clarifying how to install for gRPC C++

---
 INSTALL.md             | 2 +-
 examples/cpp/README.md | 2 +-
 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/INSTALL.md b/INSTALL.md
index 3c694ba5822..454a8b7b2fd 100644
--- a/INSTALL.md
+++ b/INSTALL.md
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 For language-specific installation instructions for gRPC runtime, please
 refer to these documents
 
- * [C++](examples/cpp)
+ * [C++](examples/cpp): Currently to install gRPC for C++, you need to build from source as described below.
  * [C#](src/csharp): NuGet package `Grpc`
  * [Go](https://github.com/grpc/grpc-go): `go get google.golang.org/grpc`
  * [Java](https://github.com/grpc/grpc-java)
diff --git a/examples/cpp/README.md b/examples/cpp/README.md
index e4b0eb698bf..d93cbacf7b2 100644
--- a/examples/cpp/README.md
+++ b/examples/cpp/README.md
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 
 ## Installation
 
-To install gRPC on your system, follow the instructions [here](../../INSTALL.md).
+To install gRPC on your system, follow the instructions to build from source [here](../../INSTALL.md). This also installs the protocol buffer compiler `protoc` (if you don't have it already), and the C++ gRPC plugin for `protoc`.
 
 ## Hello C++ gRPC!