On Sat, Aug 27, 2016 at 4:55 AM, khing blue <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi, > > I'm new to ProtoBuf and would like to see if I can contribute something. > The problem is, I only have a laptop with Windows + cygwin installed, given > limited free disk space I currently have, I might not able to install a > virtual machine at the moment. So I'd like to know if I can build the > source code under Windows or Cygwin? > It's recommended to use cmake when building protobuf on windows. If you are using cygwin, just do: $ git clone https://github.com/google/protobuf.git $ cd protobuf $ cmake -Dprotobuf_BUILD_TESTS=OFF cmake $ make To build the tests you will need to run the autogen.sh script to download gmock and gtest: $ git clone https://github.com/google/protobuf.git $ cd protobuf $ ./autogen.sh $ cmake -Dprotobuf_BUILD_TESTS=OFF cmake $ make > > Thanks > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Protocol Buffers" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/protobuf. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Protocol Buffers" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/protobuf. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
