There are currently two ways to build projects with the gRPC Objective-C library:
* Cocoapods & Xcode
* Bazel (experimental)
## Cocoapods
## Installation
To run this example you should have [Cocoapods](https://cocoapods.org/#install) installed, as well
as the relevant tools to generate the client library code (and a server in another language, for
testing). You can obtain the latter by following [these setup instructions](https://github.com/grpc/homebrew-grpc).
## Hello Objective-C gRPC!
### Hello Objective-C gRPC!
Here's how to build and run the Objective-C implementation of the [Hello World](../../protos/helloworld.proto)
example used in [Getting started](https://github.com/grpc/grpc/tree/master/examples).
@ -27,7 +33,7 @@ Change your current directory to `examples/objective-c/helloworld`
$ cd examples/objective-c/helloworld
```
### Try it!
#### Try it!
To try the sample app, we need a gRPC server running locally. Let's compile and run, for example,
the C++ server in this repository:
@ -53,6 +59,49 @@ code in `main.m` and see the results in XCode's log console.
The code sends a `HLWHelloRequest` containing the string "Objective-C" to a local server. The server
responds with a `HLWHelloResponse`, which contains a string that is then output to the log.
## Bazel
### Installation
To run the examples in Bazel, you should have [Bazel](https://docs.bazel.build/versions/master/install-os-x.html) installed.
### Hello Objective-C gRPC!
Here's how to build and run the Objective-C implementation of the [Hello World](helloworld) example.
The code for the Hello World example and others live in the `examples` directory. Clone this repository to your local machine by running the following commands:
Next, change your directory to `examples/objective-c`
```shell
$ cd grpc/examples/objective-c
```
Now build the Hello World project:
```shell
$ bazel build :HelloWorld
```
#### Try it!
To run the Hello World sample properly, we need a local server. Let's compile and run the corresponding C++ server:
```shell
$ bazel run //examples:greeter_server
```
To run the sample, you need to know the available simulator runtimes in your machine. You could either list the available runtimes yourself by running:
```shell
$ xcrun simctl list
```
Or just try running the app and it will let you know what is available in the error messages:
```shell
$ bazel run :HelloWorld
```
Note that running this command will build the project even if it is not built beforehand.
Finally, launch the app with one of the available runtimes:
```shell
$ bazel run :HelloWorld --ios_simulator_version='<runtime>' --ios_sumlator_device='<device>'
```
## Tutorial
You can find a more detailed tutorial in [gRPC Basics: Objective-C](https://grpc.io/docs/tutorials/basic/objective-c.html).