protobuf

Protocol buffers are a language-neutral, platform-neutral extensible mechanism for serializing structured data. See documentation

Maintainers

• The Core Planners: chef-core-planners@chef.io

Type of Package

Binary package

Use as Dependency

Binary packages can be set as runtime or build time dependencies. See Defining your dependencies for more information.

To add core/protobuf as a dependency, you can add one of the following to your plan file.

Buildtime Dependency

pkg_build_deps=(core/protobuf)

Runtime dependency

pkg_deps=(core/protobuf)

Use as Tool

Installation

To install this plan, you should run the following commands to first install, and then link the binaries this plan creates.

hab pkg install core/protobuf --binlink

will add the following binary to the PATH:

• /bin/protoc

For example:

$ hab pkg install core/protobuf --binlink
» Installing core/protobuf
☁ Determining latest version of core/protobuf in the 'stable' channel
☛ Verifying core/protobuf/3.9.2/20200310022658
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✓ Installed core/protobuf/3.9.2/20200310022658
★ Install of core/protobuf/3.9.2/20200310022658 complete with 4 new packages installed.
» Binlinking protoc from core/protobuf/3.9.2/20200310022658 into /bin
★ Binlinked protoc from core/protobuf/3.9.2/20200310022658 to /bin/protoc

Using an example binary

You can now use the binary as normal. For example:

/bin/protoc --help or protoc --help

$ protoc --help
Usage: protoc [OPTION] PROTO_FILES
Parse PROTO_FILES and generate output based on the options given:
  -IPATH, --proto_path=PATH   Specify the directory in which to search for
                              imports.  May be specified multiple times;
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