Adding protobuf in yocto recipe

Question

How can we add protobuf specific version (say : 3.19.6) in the yocto recipe?

what are the things that we can add in the yocto recipe to install protobuf 3.19.6

Answer 1

Add the meta-openembedded layer to build/conf/bblayers.conf, and then add e.g. DEPENDS="protobuf-c" (or DEPENDS="protobuf-c-native , depending on what you want to do) to your recipe.