Re: Installation requirements and supported platforms?

2009-08-19 Thread Gregor Stich
Thanks for your answers! Just another ``trivial´´ question: Let's assume that I've installed Protocol Buffers on my Windows(tm) machine so that I'm able to generate language-specific stubs. I could transfer them to the target system runnnig Solaris. Do the stubs still depend on a protocol

Re: Installation requirements and supported platforms?

2009-08-19 Thread Kenton Varda
The source code generated by protoc is identical regardless of what platform protoc itself is executed on. The runtime library is always required. The Java code (and the Python code, and probably Perl too though that's a third-party implementation) is completely platform-neutral so it should work

Re: Installation requirements and supported platforms?

2009-08-18 Thread Kenton Varda
In theory it should work on any modern unix. In practice it's hard to say what platforms may have quirks that cause problems. I test each release on Linux, Visual Studio, Cygwin, MinGW, and Mac OSX, and Monty Taylor has been testing on Solaris with Sun Studio. It probably works on other