google/protobuf/any.proto: file not found on RHEL 7.

[Jon Kruger]

when I try to compile my .proto to python and cpp, I get the following:

$ protoc --python_out=./py_msgs --cpp_out=./cpp_msgs ./spm.proto

google/protobuf/any.proto: File not found.
spm.proto:4:1: Import "google/protobuf/any.proto" was not found or had errors.
spm.proto:228:3: "google.protobuf.Any" is not defined.
$

Code:

syntax = "proto3";
package myMessages;


import "google/protobuf/any.proto";  // line 4
...// skip a bunch of lines where I define sub messages and enums
message SpmMyMessage { // line 226
  MessageIdType       ID   = 1; // an enum
  google.protobuf.Any body = 2;
}

System:

Redhat 7.6

kernel 3.10.0-957.10.1.el7.x86_64

When I did the make install, it didn't finish, so I had to finish "by hand", and here is what I did:

tar -xvf protobuf-all-3.10.1.tar.gz
cd protobuf-3.10.1
./configure
make -j
make check
sudo make install  # fails, so need to execute the following extra commands
 
cd src/.libs
sudo cp libprotobuf.a /usr/local/lib
sudo cp libprotobuf-lite.a /usr/local/lib
sudo cp libprotoc.a /usr/local/lib
sudo cp libprotoc.la /usr/local/lib
sudo cp libprotoc.so.21.0.1 /usr/local/lib
sudo cp protoc /usr/local/bin
 
cd  /usr/local/lib
sudo ln -s libprotoc.so.21.0.1 libprotoc.so
sudo ln -s libprotoc.so.21.0.1 libprotoc.so.21

Python modules installed:

sudo pip3 install --trusted-host pypi.org clint zmq mock pyserial google protobuf protobuf3

Does anyone know what I'm doing wrong?  If I look in the unzipped source, in src/google/protobuf/ there are a bunch of non-test .proto files.  I just don't know if they need to be copied somewhere as well.  I'm thinking my failed install also failed to copy those files.

[Jon Kruger]

Found the solution on an Ubuntu install: there are 11 .proto files that go in /usr/local/include/google/protobuf/ :

any.proto

api.proto

descriptor.proto

duration.proto

empty.proto

field_mask.proto

source_context.proto

struct.proto

timestamp.proto

type.proto

wrappers.proto