For more information regarding installation, consult the following document: http://google.github.io/google-api-cpp-client/latest/start/installation.html To get started using the Google APIs Client Library for C++ see: http://google.github.io/google-api-cpp-client/latest/start/get_started.html The Doxygen-generated API reference is available online at: http://google.github.io/google-api-cpp-client/latest/doxygen/index.html For the current Google APIs Client Library for C++ see: http://github.com/google/google-api-cpp-client/ The current installation has only been tested on Unix/Linux systems and OS/X. This release does not support Windows yet. The following sequence of actions should result in a turnkey build of the client libraries from the source code given only: Prerequisites: * python (Available from http://www.python.org/getit/) - verified with versions 2.6.4 and 2.7.3 * C++ compiler and Make - Mac OSX https://developer.apple.com/xcode/ - Linux http://gcc.gnu.org/ * CMake - Either http://www.cmake.org/cmake/resources/software.html - or run ./prepare_dependencies.py cmake and restart your shell to get the updated path. Bootstrap Steps: ./prepare_dependencies.py mkdir build && cd build ../external_dependencies/install/bin/cmake .. make all make test make install To download additional APIs specialized for individual Google Services see: http://google.github.io/google-api-cpp-client/latest/available_service_apis.html It should be possible to build this from existing installed libraries. However, the build scripts are not yet written to find them. For initial support simplicity we download and build all the dependencies in the prepare_dependencies.py script for the time being as a one-time brute force preparation. If you have problems, questions or suggestions, contact: The Google group at https://groups.google.com/group/google-api-cpp-client Or you may also ask questions on StackOverflow at: http://stackoverflow.com with the tag google-api-cpp-client Status This SDK is in maintanance mode. The patches being made are mostly for portability and/or to remove unneeded pieces. We are not set up to accept pull requests at this time, nor will be in the forseable future. Please submit suggestions as issues. About the branches The master branch is where development is done. It usually is compatible with the generated libraries available from from google.developers.com. On occasion it gets aheaad of those. It usually catches up in a few days. The latest generated libraries for any Google API is available automatically from https://developers.google.com/resources/api-libraries/download/<API>/<VERSION>/cpp For example, for Drive/v2, you would use https://developers.google.com/resources/api-libraries/download/drive/v2/cpp