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

There is another official way by Google, as mentioned by another user.

Read it fully before trying.

Here are the steps:

Open Terminal and type the following

1. PROTOC_ZIP=protoc-3.7.1-osx-x86_64.zip
2. curl -OL https://github.com/google/protobuf/releases/download/v3.7.1/$PROTOC_ZIP
3. sudo unzip -o $PROTOC_ZIP -d /usr/local bin/protoc
4. rm -f $PROTOC_ZIP

Worked for me.

P.S.
This is for version 3.7.1 in osx only. If you want to install some other version/platform, visit the releases link and check out the details of the latest version, and use those information. Reference