Installing the Protobuf Compiler on a Mac

Erika Dike

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Jan 24, 2018

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1. Download the appropriate release here: https://github.com/google/protobuf/releases
2. Unzip the folder
3. Enter the folder and run ./autogen.sh && ./configure && make
4. If you run into this error: autoreconf: failed to run aclocal: No such file or directory, run brew install autoconf && brew install automake. And run the command from step 3 again.
5. Then run these other commands. They should run without issues

$ make check$ sudo make install$ which protoc$ protoc --version