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

Answer 2

I was build protobuf v2.4.1 on Windows 10 as follows:

• git clone https://github.com/protocolbuffers/protobuf.git;
• cd protobuf;
• git checkout v2.4.1;
• cd vsprojects
• open protobuf.sln in Visual Studio 2019
• Press build solution and take many errors: min undefined and max undefined Add in file protobuf/stubs/common.h next code:

#if defined(_WIN32) && !defined(min)
#define min(a,b) __min(a,b)
#define max(a,b) __max(a,b)
#endif

• Press build solution and take error: fatal error C1189: “#error: hash_map is deprecated and will be REMOVED….”
• Add compile definition -D_SILENCE_STDEXT_HASH_DEPRECATION_WARNINGS solved problem
• Next I had error “error C2664: "std::pair std::make_pair(_Ty1 &&,_Ty2 &&) noexcept”…”
• In file src\google\protobuf\compiler\command_line_interface.cc I modified string “proto_path_.push_back(make_pair< string, string >(virtual_path, disk_path));” to “proto_path_.push_back(make_pair(virtual_path, disk_path));”

• Press build solution. All build succeed.(Tests projects not build without test framework)

  INSTALL:

• Run extract_includes.bat to copy all the public headers into a separate "include" directory (under the top-level package directory).
• Copy the contents of the include directory to wherever you want to put headers
• Copy protoc.exe wherever you put build tools
• copy libprotobuf.lib, libprotobuf-lite.lib, and libprotoc.lib wherever you put libraries.