How to build and install from source?

[Rasta Kolobar]

root@Xeon:/nanopb/nanopb# cmake .
-- The C compiler identification is GNU 5.4.0
-- Check for working C compiler: /usr/bin/cc
-- Check for working C compiler: /usr/bin/cc -- works
-- Detecting C compiler ABI info
-- Detecting C compiler ABI info - done
-- Detecting C compile features
-- Detecting C compile features - done
-- Found PythonInterp: /usr/bin/python2.7 (found suitable version "2.7.12", minimum required is "2.7")
-- Configuring done
-- Generating done
-- Build files have been written to: /home/root/Downloads/nanobuf/nanopb
root@Xeon:/nanopb/nanopb# make
Scanning dependencies of target generate_nanopb_pb2.py
[ 16%] Generating nanopb_pb2.py
[ 16%] Built target generate_nanopb_pb2.py
Scanning dependencies of target generate_plugin_pb2.py
[ 33%] Generating plugin_pb2.py
[ 33%] Built target generate_plugin_pb2.py
Scanning dependencies of target protobuf-nanopb
[ 50%] Building C object CMakeFiles/protobuf-nanopb.dir/pb_common.c.o
[ 66%] Building C object CMakeFiles/protobuf-nanopb.dir/pb_encode.c.o
[ 83%] Building C object CMakeFiles/protobuf-nanopb.dir/pb_decode.c.o
[100%] Linking C static library libprotobuf-nanopb.a
[100%] Built target protobuf-nanopb
root@Xeon:/nanopb/nanopb# make install
[ 16%] Built target generate_nanopb_pb2.py
[ 33%] Built target generate_plugin_pb2.py
[100%] Built target protobuf-nanopb
Install the project...
-- Install configuration: ""
-- Installing: /usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/nanopb_pb2.py
-- Installing: /usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/plugin_pb2.py
-- Installing: /usr/local/lib/libprotobuf-nanopb.a
-- Installing: /usr/local/lib/cmake/nanopb/nanopb-targets.cmake
-- Installing: /usr/local/lib/cmake/nanopb/nanopb-targets-noconfig.cmake
-- Up-to-date: /usr/local/lib/cmake/nanopb/nanopb-config.cmake
-- Installing: /usr/local/lib/cmake/nanopb/nanopb-config-version.cmake
-- Up-to-date: /usr/local/include/pb.h
-- Up-to-date: /usr/local/include/pb_common.h
-- Up-to-date: /usr/local/include/pb_encode.h
-- Up-to-date: /usr/local/include/pb_decode.h
root@Xeon:/nanopb/nanopb# cd examples/
root@Xeon:/nanopb/nanopb/examples# ll
total 28
drwxrwxr-x 7 root root 4096 мар  5 18:28 ./
drwxrwxr-x 9 root root 4096 юли  7 10:21 ../
drwxrwxr-x 2 root root 4096 мар  5 18:28 cmake_simple/
drwxrwxr-x 2 root root 4096 мар  5 18:28 network_server/
drwxrwxr-x 2 root root 4096 мар  5 18:28 simple/
drwxrwxr-x 2 root root 4096 мар  5 18:28 using_double_on_avr/
drwxrwxr-x 2 root root 4096 мар  5 18:28 using_union_messages/
root@Xeon:/nanopb/nanopb/examples# cd  simple
root@Xeon:/nanopb/nanopb/examples/simple# ll
total 24
drwxrwxr-x 2 root root 4096 мар  5 18:28 ./
drwxrwxr-x 7 root root 4096 мар  5 18:28 ../
-rw-rw-r-- 1 root root  720 мар  5 18:28 Makefile
-rw-rw-r-- 1 root root  835 мар  5 18:28 README.txt
-rw-rw-r-- 1 root root 2213 мар  5 18:28 simple.c
-rw-rw-r-- 1 root root  158 мар  5 18:28 simple.proto
root@Xeon:/nanopb/nanopb/examples/simple# protoc -omessage.pb simple.proto
root@Xeon:/nanopb/nanopb/examples/simple# nanopb_generator.py message.pb
nanopb_generator.py: command not found
root@Xeon:/nanopb/nanopb/examples/simple#

[Petteri Aimonen]

Hi,

> root@Xeon:/nanopb/nanopb# cmake .

I haven't actually planned nanopb to be installed system-wide like that,
I just use the source archive directly as is more common in embedded
projects.

The cmake file is a third-party contribution.

--
Petteri