Installing Google Protocol Buffers on mac

Question

I would like to install the older version of Google Protocol Buffers (protobuf-2.4.1) on mac using Terminal command line. I tried with brew install protobuf, bu

Answer 1

This is not via brew, but the end result is the same.

1. Download the protobuf-2.4.1 from https://protobuf.googlecode.com/files/protobuf-2.4.1.tar.gz
2. Extract the tar.gz file.
3. $cd ~/Downloads/protobuf-2.4.1
4. $./configure
5. $make
6. $make check
7. $sudo make install
8. $which protoc
9. $protoc --version

Steps 4-7 are from the README.txt file from the protobuf tarball.