protoc-jar
Protocol Buffers compiler - multi-platform executable JAR and API. Available on Maven Central: http://central.maven.org/maven2/com/github/os72/protoc-jar/
Simple convenience JAR that embeds protoc compiler binaries for Linux, Mac/OSX, and Windows, providing some portability across the major platforms
See also
- https://github.com/os72/protoc-jar-maven-plugin (maven plugin for protobuf code generation)
- https://github.com/google/protobuf (Protocol Buffers site)
Version support
- protobuf 2.4.1:
-v2.4.1,-v241 - protobuf 2.5.0:
-v2.5.0,-v250 - protobuf 2.6.1:
-v2.6.1,-v261 - protobuf 3.0.0:
-v3.0.0,-v300
Usage - executable
$ java -jar protoc-jar-3.0.0-a3.jar -v2.4.1 --version
protoc-jar: protoc version: 241, detected platform: windows 8/amd64
protoc-jar: executing: [C:\cygwin64\tmp\protoc4075756100699382860.exe, --version]
libprotoc 2.4.1
$ java -jar protoc-jar-3.0.0-a3.jar -v2.5.0 --version
protoc-jar: protoc version: 250, detected platform: windows 8/amd64
protoc-jar: executing: [C:\cygwin64\tmp\protoc7121779431303398811.exe, --version]
libprotoc 2.5.0
$ java -jar protoc-jar-3.0.0-a3.jar -v2.6.1 --version
protoc-jar: protoc version: 261, detected platform: windows 8/amd64
protoc-jar: executing: [C:\cygwin64\tmp\protoc2894421465727929903.exe, --version]
libprotoc 2.6.1
$ java -jar protoc-jar-3.0.0-a3.jar -v3.0.0 --version
protoc-jar: protoc version: 300, detected platform: windows 8/amd64
protoc-jar: executing: [C:\cygwin64\tmp\protoc4836429907662708747.exe, --version]
libprotoc 3.0.0
Usage - API
import com.github.os72.protocjar.Protoc;
...
String[] args = {"-v241", "--help"};
Protoc.runProtoc(args);Maven dependency
<dependency>
<groupId>com.github.os72</groupId>
<artifactId>protoc-jar</artifactId>
<version>3.0.0-a3</version>
</dependency>