I currently have a file called addressbook.proto in next to my protoc.exe. I am having difficulty generating the .h and the .cc file. Here is what I am doing
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The -cpp_out tag specifies the output directory for generated c source code.
I would suggest trying (if proto is actually stored under the c: directory c:\addressbook.proto)
protoc c:\addressbook.proto --cpp_out=./
or
protoc addressbook.proto --cpp_out=./