Install Protocol Buffers on Windows

Question

I am unable to find clear instructions to install Google Protocol Buffers (including compiler) on Windows x64 platform.

I went through the instructions README file for c

Answer 1

Download protoc-2.5.0-win32.zip from

https://github.com/protocolbuffers/protobuf/releases/tag/v2.5.0

Then to install, simply place this binary somewhere in your PATH