crying in a small corner trying while trying to build C++ protobuf

[Petras Vestartas]

Hi,

For a good week or two I am trying to use protobuf in c++ without luck.

I understand the prorcess of generate pb.c and pb.h files from headers.

But for de/serializing the binary files you actually need static libraries.

System wide installation on ubuntu, mac-universal and windows are "sometimes" available or outdated which lead to build it C++ from source which is impossible to me to understand.

What should I do to use protobuf in c++?
Documentation about installation is really not clear.

I am the most basic user trying to de/serialize as simple as that:

syntax = "proto3";

package session_proto;

// Color message - matching C++ Color class field order

message ColorProto {

string name = 1; // std::string name

string guid = 2; // std::string guid

uint32 r = 3; // unsigned int r

uint32 g = 4; // unsigned int g

uint32 b = 5; // unsigned int b

uint32 a = 6; // unsigned int a

}

[Arjun Patel]

I went through the same pain. I would suggest that you use vcpkg which helps with cross-platform dependencies. I've found this to be the simplest.

If this doesn't help, then I can help if you create a simple hello world cmake project in github and share it. Then I can add scripts and such to help you.

One note: you should try using cmake commands to generate the source and header files instead of using the protoc cli tool. This will ensure that the runtime protobuf version that your C++ project uses matches the version that protoc used to generate sources and headers from your .proto files.

[Petras Vestartas]

@Arjun Patel this is the repository with CMakelists for v29, I could not manage to build for v32:
https://github.com/petrasvestartas/protobuf_example

It is for Ubuntu. 
If someone could show how to build v32, I would then try mac and windows.

Please...