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How to get a precompiled linux binary for protoc (protocol buffers)?

My build server is based on Linux. I need protoc to integrate it with my ant build system.

I use the following in build.xml for this:

<exec executable="tools/protoc.exe" failonerror="true"> <arg value="--java_out=../protos/java/generated" /> <arg value="--proto_path=../protos/proto" /> <arg value="../protos/proto/*.proto" /> </exec>

I found windows binaries but not linux binary for protoc.

Any help for finding one or building a statically linked protoc binary would be nice.

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Have you tried just downloading the main protobuf project and following the installation instructions ? It seems I remember it quite simply if you only need a binary:

 $ ./autogen.sh $ ./configure $ make

(In this case, you probably won't need to make install if you only need the binary protoc file. Just find out where it was created and copy it.)

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Precompiled binaries for the latest version are on the official releases page on GitHub. Previous versions can be found in the Maven repository .

Edit Oct 19, 2017: There are no precompiled binaries for v3.4.1 (currently the latest version), but the release page states that This is mostly a bug fix release on runtime packages. It is safe to use 3.4.0 protoc packages for this release. This is mostly a bug fix release on runtime packages. It is safe to use 3.4.0 protoc packages for this release. Binaries for v3.4.0 can be found by scrolling further down.

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For java, you can also use https://github.com/os72/protoc-jar , which already contains binaries for different platforms.

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In Ubuntu (starting from 12.04) you can find protobuf-compiler in the repository.

 sudo apt-get install protobuf-compiler $> protoc --version libprotoc 2.6.1

And you can also set header files:

 sudo aptitude install libprotobuf-dev
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