protobuf-cpp

Google's language-neutral, platform-neutral, extensible mechanism for serializing structured data.

Maintainers

• The Core Planners: chef-core-planners@chef.io

Type of Package

Binary package

Use as Dependency

Binary packages can be set as runtime or build time dependencies. See Defining your dependencies for more information.

To add core/protobuf-cpp as a depdendency, you can add one of the following to your plan file.

Buildtime Dependency

pkg_build_deps=(core/protobuf-cpp)

Runtime Depdendency

pkg_deps=(core/protobuf-cpp)

Use as Tool

Installation

To install this plan, you should run the following commands to first install, and then link the binaries this plan creates.

hab pkg install core/protobuf-cpp

» Installing core/protobuf-cpp

☁ Determining latest version of core/protobuf-cpp in the 'stable' channel

☛ Verifying core/protobuf-cpp/3.9.2/20200622090120 ...

✓ Installed core/protobuf-cpp/3.9.2/20200622090120

★ Install of core/protobuf-cpp/3.9.2/20200622090120 complete with 1 new packages installed.

hab pkg binlink core/protobuf-cpp

» Binlinking protoc from core/protobuf-cpp into /bin

★ Binlinked protoc from core/protobuf-cpp/3.9.2/20200622090120 to /bin/protoc

Using an example binary

You can now use the binary as normal:

/bin/protoc --help or protoc --help

Usage: protoc [OPTION] PROTO_FILES
Parse PROTO_FILES and generate output based on the options given:
  -IPATH, --proto_path=PATH   Specify the directory in which to search for
                              imports.  May be specified multiple times;
                              directories will be searched in order.  If not
                              given, the current working directory is used.
                              If not found in any of the these directories,
                              the --descriptor_set_in descriptors will be
                              checked for required proto file.
  --version                   Show version info and exit.
  -h, --help                  Show this text and exit.
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