How to build Google's protobuf in Windows using MinGW?

Question

I\'m using Codeblocks as my IDE with MingGW. I\'m trying to use google protocol buffers, but I\'m having trouble building the protobuf.

The readme file for protobu

Answer 1

In my case Peter's answer did not work completely, I used the latest MinGW 4.8.1 + the MSys distribution (selected both MSys packages in mingw-get).

My problem was that the prefix didn't really work, I could only find the files in C:\MinGW\msys\1.0\local . However, after copying the bin / include / libs folders to c:\mingw, the installation worked for me, too.