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Ramanathan
Ramanathan

Reputation: 3

Install protoc without maven (win7, java)

I tried installing protoc on windows without maven (I can't download maven due to org firewall issues).
I have my protoc.exe in the ..\src (not in java\src as many do) folder as mentioned in the readme.

When I give protoc --version in the command prompt, I get libprotoc 2.6.0. That's fine.
But when I give protoc --java_out=src/main/java -I../src/google/protobuf/descriptor.proto, I get missing input file all the time & I can't proceed further.

I have tried giving the entire path where my descriptor.proto lies, tried changing -I to -IPATH, tried using --proto_path but I still get the same Missing input file error.

Can someone help me out on this?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1790

Answers (1)

Kenton Varda
Kenton Varda

Reputation: 45151

The command you want (from the Protobuf-Java readme) is:

protoc --java_out=src/main/java -I../src ../src/google/protobuf/descriptor.proto

Notice that the -I flag and the descriptor.proto argument are two different arguments. It looks like you accidentally merged them into one.

Upvotes: 2

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