Using Qt GRPC on Ubuntu 24.04.3 LTS x86_64

nmls

Hi all,

I am using Ubuntu 24.04 and I am installing Qt via APT packages. The installed Qt version is:

$ qmake6 --version
QMake version 3.1
Using Qt version 6.4.2 in /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu

Now, I am trying to use Qt GRPC for a client in my Qt app such that I connect to an external gRPC server. However, there isn't a qt6-grpc APT package on the stable sources for Ubuntu. My questions are:

what's the cleanest way to use gRPC with my App?
what are the alternatives out there? I wish to not change OS.
could I not use Qt gRPC at all and directly use the "usual" C++ gRPC library? pros, cons?

SGaist

Hi and welcome to devnet,

That module is available since Qt 6.5.

You have basically two options:

Try to build it yourself against 6.4
Use the online Qt installer and install a more recent version of Qt in your home folder.

Using gRPC directly means that you will have to implemented all the low-level details and integration with the event loop done by the QtGRPC module.