Merge pull request #4 from google/fix_readme

Add instructions on how to generate the configure script.
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Jisi Liu 2014-08-28 11:32:49 -07:00
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C++ Installation - Unix
=======================
If you get the source from github, you need to generate the configure script
first:
$ ./autogen.sh
This will download gtest source (which is used for C++ Protocol Buffer
unit-tests) to the current directory and run automake, autoconf, etc.
to generate the configure script and various template makefiles.
You can skip this step if you are using a release package (which already
contains gtest and the configure script).
To build and install the C++ Protocol Buffer runtime and the Protocol
Buffer compiler (protoc) execute the following: