install gRPC and got make error

Question

I want to install gRPC in my centos and i did the follows:

git clone https://github.com/grpc/grpc.git
cd grpc
make

and now make error:

[root@VM_8_69_centos grpc]# make
[MAKE]    Generating cache.mk
[C]       Compiling third_party/boringssl/crypto/asn1/tasn_dec.c
In file included from third_party/boringssl/crypto/asn1/tasn_dec.c:66:
third_party/boringssl/crypto/asn1/../internal.h:121:22: error: stdalign.h: No such file or directory
make: *** [/root/src/grpc/objs/opt/third_party/boringssl/crypto/asn1/tasn_dec.o] Error 1

Answer 1

That project uses a number of git submodules--if you go into the third_party directory on github all the submodules have a grey double folder icon and if you click it takes you to another project, not into a subdirectory.

To fix the error you're seeing in make you probably just need to run git submodule update --init --recursive to check out all the submodules.