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 About the branches The master branch is were development is done and usually matches the generated libraries available from from google.developers.com. For breaking changes in this SDK (when it gets ahead of the library generator), we will first make a tag matching the compatible version of the library generator. For example, the current generated surface is at version '0.1.2'. If the master branch gets incompatibly ahead of the generator, we will first leave a '0.1.2' tag here to retrieve the compatible version. We use tags rather than branches because the library generator should soon catch up. All fixes will be done in the master branch, so a tag is sufficient. 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