protobuf installation

protobuf installation

This was tested on MAC OS, but it should work for Linux as well.

Java/Eclipse

• Install the following plugins:

• • instructions
• • and this, in the same fashion

• download Binaries and test code hier

• build the binaries:

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cd protobuf-2.5.0
configure
make
make install

• Some path-voodoo:

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cd java
protoc --java_out=src/main/java -I../src ../src/google/protobuf/descriptor.proto

( you would've had to copy com.google.protobuffrom java/src/main/javato ManiacLib/src, but we already did that ;) ) Source: StackOverflow

• protoc compiler path in eclipse: (should lead to a file called protoc)
• (optional) enable automatic compiling like so
• find a .proto file and compile it to test your installation:

Python

protoc -I=$SRC_DIR --python_out=$DST_DIR $SRC_DIR/addressbook.proto

With the Maniac Structure, that would be:

cd maniacBackbone
protoc -I=../ManiacLib/src/ --python_out=./ ../ManiacLib/src/protoPackets.proto