On Thu, Mar 21, 2013 at 4:52 AM, Jesús García Sáez wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I've been using protobuf for a little while, until now I've been always
> compiling my little project in my normal workstation (amd64) and then again
> in another one (i386) because I thought the part related with protobuf was
> architecture dependent.
>
> Today I've compared the output I get from protoc (amd64 vs i386) and is
> the same (I'm using python but all outputs, java, cpp and python, were
> equal). So my question is if I'm dumb for have been compiling for both
> amd64 and i386 architecture. Or if actually protoc is architecture
> dependent and in that case why the output in the amd64 system and i386 are
> equal (both are ubuntu precise using protobuf-compiler package).
>
The output of protoc only differs per language, not per architecture. The
compiled binary is architecture dependent but the source code is not.
Protoc is simply generating some source code that you can reuse across
different architectures.
>
> Regards.
>
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