This is what I ended up doing in the end. Thanks On Mon, Aug 1, 2022 at 2:12 PM 'Deanna Garcia' via Protocol Buffers <protobuf@googlegroups.com> wrote: > > In general we recommend that you distribute the .proto file itself and not > the generated code. As you pointed out, distributing generated code doesn't > allow any user to use a different runtime. The wire format is always > compatible so it doesn't matter that you are using a different version of > protobuf than your users. This also lets them use your proto in any language, > giving them more flexibility. > > On Friday, May 27, 2022 at 9:39:32 AM UTC-7 lo...@sportlogiq.com wrote: >> >> I can't seem to wrap my head around a way to distribute protobuf generated >> code. >> I have 2 projects, A and B >> B imports project As proto definition >> >> A and B have python and C++ generated code. >> For python it seems to all work well (had issues with protoc not generating >> the righ import package path, but I seem to have solved this) >> >> In C++ it get's complicated >> >> Say I build a .so from project A and I bundle the header with the librairy >> (protobuf 3.17 was used). >> >> If The person working on B had a different version of protobuf installed, he >> can't use the header or he'll get the 'error: #error This file was generated >> by an older version of protoc which is' message >> >> So for C++ I can't bundle a library with headers, I need to share the proto >> and let the users generate the code in their own build system... This seems >> wrong. >> >> In the same line of thought, should the _pb2.py be disitributed or should >> the client installing the lib locally generate (say have instructions in >> setup.py) the code >> >> Thanks > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to a topic in the Google > Groups "Protocol Buffers" group. > To unsubscribe from this topic, visit > https://groups.google.com/d/topic/protobuf/ib5YQH-MXF4/unsubscribe. > To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, send an email to > protobuf+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/protobuf/9c6a68f0-be63-457f-ac3b-402f87076771n%40googlegroups.com.
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