If you want to get started quickly with Google Protocol Buffers in the Go Programming Language lets follow the guide from
https://developers.google.com/protocol-buffers/docs/gotutorial
First we download from GitHub protocolbuf project:
git clone https://github.com/protocolbuffers/protobuf.git
Then we setup our Go project.
mkdir -p ~/protobuf/src/github.com/protocolbuffers/protobuf/examples/
From git repo, locate examples folder
cd ~/GIT/protobuf/examples
Then copy the source code to our Go project:
cp Makefile ~/protobuf/src/github.com/protocolbuffers/protobuf/examples
cp *go ~/protobuf/src/github.com/protocolbuffers/protobuf/examples
cp *proto ~/protobuf/src/github.com/protocolbuffers/protobuf/examples
Setup the GOHOME variable
export GOPATH=~/protobuf
Then we install protobuf protoc compiler: Download protoc from following location then unzip in your preferred folder
https://github.com/protocolbuffers/protobuf/releases
For instance I unzip into my protoc folder:
Update your path to locate protoc
export PATH=~/protoc/bin:$PATH
Then we install go plugin
go get -u github.com/golang/protobuf/protoc-gen-go
Update your path to locate protoc-gen-go. (Installed in previous step by go get)
export PATH=~/protobuf/bin:$PATH
This is the go project setup, now lets build the tutorial.
Go to examples folder
cd ~/protobuf/src/github.com/protocolbuffers/protobuf/examples
make clean
make go
Running the sample
