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  but the latest version 2 5 0 has been installed  Is it possible to install the older version from terminal   Thanks

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HomeBrew versions has been removed and formulaes have been emptied. Therefore, my advice is to install it manually following the following steps.

For the time being you will need to build and install the Protocol Buffers toolset manually.

Download source code: https://github.com/google/protobuf/releases/download/v2.4.1/protobuf-2.4.1.tar.gz
tar xvfz protobuf-2.4.1.tar.gz
cd protobuf-2.4.1
Run ./configure
Edit src/google/protobuf/message.cc, add #include at the top of the file
Run make command from root of the folder, i.e. protobuf-2.4.1/
Run sudo make install
Run /usr/local/bin/protoc --version to check the version of protobuf compiler version The terminal output should be:

Version: libprotoc 2.4.1

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FWIW   the latest version of brew is at protobuf 3 0  and doesn t include any formulae for the older versions  This is somewhat  inconvenient    While protobuf may be compatible at the wire level  it is absolutely not compatible at the level of generated java classes  you can t use  class files generated with protoc 2 4 with the protobuf-2 5 JAR  etc  etc  This is why updating protobuf versions is such a sensitive topic in the Hadoop stack  it invariably requires coordination across different projects  and is traumatic enough that nobody likes to do it

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It s a new year and there s a new mismatch between the version of protobuf in Homebrew and the cutting edge release  As of February 2016  brew install protobuf will give you version 2 6 1   If you want the 3 0 beta release instead  you can install it with   brew install --devel protobuf

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There should be better ways but what I did today was   Download from https   github com protocolbuffers protobuf releases  protoc-3 14 0-osx-x86 64 zip at this moment   Unzip  double click the zip file   Here  I added a symbolic link   ln -s   Downloads protoc-3 14 0-osx-x86 64 bin protoc  usr local bin protoc   Check if works  protoc --version

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There are some issues with building protobuf 2 4 1 from source on a Mac  There is a patch that also has to be applied  All this is contained within the homebrew protobuf241 formula  so I would advise using it   To install protocol buffer version 2 4 1 type the following into a terminal   brew tap homebrew versions brew install protobuf241   If you already have a protocol buffer version that you tried to install from source  you can type the following into a terminal to have the source code overwritten by the homebrew version   brew link --force --overwrite protobuf241   Check that you now have the correct version installed by typing   protoc --version   It should display 2 4 1

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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   PROTOC ZIP protoc-3 7 1-osx-x86 64 zip curl -OL https   github com google protobuf releases download v3 7 1  PROTOC ZIP sudo unzip -o  PROTOC ZIP -d  usr local bin protoc 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

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For some reason I need to use protobuf 2 4 1 in my project on OS X El Capitan  However homebrew has removed protobuf241 from its formula  I install it according  kksensei s answer manually and have to fix some error during the process    During the make process  I get 3 error like following    x000D   x000D  google protobuf message cc 130 60  error  implicit instantiation of undefined template  std    1  basic istream lt char  std    1  char traits lt char gt   gt   x000D   x000D    return ParseFromZeroCopyStream  amp zero copy input   amp  amp  input- gt eof    x000D   x000D                                                               x000D   x000D   Applications Xcode app Contents Developer Toolchains XcodeDefault xctoolchain usr bin    lib c   v1 iosfwd 108 28  note  template is declared here x000D   x000D      class  LIBCPP TYPE VIS basic istream  x000D   x000D                               x000D   x000D  google protobuf message cc 135 67  error  implicit instantiation of undefined template  std    1  basic istream lt char  std    1  char traits lt char gt   gt   x000D   x000D    return ParsePartialFromZeroCopyStream  amp zero copy input   amp  amp  input- gt eof    x000D   x000D                                                                      x000D   x000D   Applications Xcode app Contents Developer Toolchains XcodeDefault xctoolchain usr bin    lib c   v1 iosfwd 108 28  note  template is declared here x000D   x000D      class  LIBCPP TYPE VIS basic istream  x000D   x000D                               x000D   x000D  google protobuf message cc 175 16  error  implicit instantiation of undefined template  std    1  basic ostream lt char  std    1  char traits lt char gt   gt   x000D   x000D    return output- gt good    x000D   x000D                   x000D   x000D   Applications Xcode app Contents Developer Toolchains XcodeDefault xctoolchain usr bin    lib c   v1 iosfwd 110 28  note  template is declared here x000D   x000D      class  LIBCPP TYPE VIS basic ostream  x000D   x000D                               x000D   x000D   x000D     Sorry  I dont know how to attach code when the code contains        If you get the same error  please edit src google protobuf message cc  add  include  lt istream gt  at the top of the file and do   make again and should get no errors  After that do   sudo make install  When install finished  protoc --version should display the correct result

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I used macports  sudo port install protobuf-cpp

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To install Protocol Buffer  as of today version v3 7 0    Go to this website download the zip file according to your OS  e g   protoc-3 7 0-osx-x86 64 zip   This applies also to other OS   Move the executable in protoc-3 bin protoc to one of your directories in PATH  In Mac I suggest to put it into  usr local bin    Now your good to go    optional  There is also an include file  you can add  This is a snippet of the README md   If you intend to use the included well known types then don t forget to copy the contents of the  include  directory somewhere as well  for example into   usr local include     Please refer to our official github site for more installation instructions  https   github com protocolbuffers protobuf

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If you landed here looking for how to install Protocol Buffers on Mac  it can be done using Homebrew by running the command below  brew install protobuf   It installs the latest version of protobuf available  For me  at the time of writing  this installed the v3 7 1  If you d like to install an older version  please look up the available ones from the package page Protobuf Package - Homebrew and install that specific version of the package   The oldest available protobuf version in this package is v3 6 1 3

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you can install from official link page provided by google http   google github io proto-lens installing-protoc html

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From https   github com paulirish homebrew-versions-1   Works for me   brew install https   raw githubusercontent com paulirish homebrew-versions-1 master protobuf241 rb

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brew install --devel protobuf   If it tells you  protobuf-2 6 1 already installed    1  brew uninstall --devel protobuf   2  brew link libtool  3  brew install --devel protobuf

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This is not via brew  but the end result is the same    Download the protobuf-2 4 1 from https   protobuf googlecode com files protobuf-2 4 1 tar gz Extract the tar gz file   cd   Downloads protobuf-2 4 1    configure  make  make check  sudo make install  which protoc  protoc --version   Steps 4-7 are from the README txt file from the protobuf tarball

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For v3 users   http   google github io proto-lens installing-protoc html  PROTOC ZIP protoc-3 7 1-osx-x86 64 zip curl -OL https   github com protocolbuffers protobuf releases download v3 7 1  PROTOC ZIP sudo unzip -o  PROTOC ZIP -d  usr local bin protoc sudo unzip -o  PROTOC ZIP -d  usr local  include    rm -f  PROTOC ZIP

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