crifkin / protobuf

Protocol Buffers for Node.JS

Overview:

This is a fork of https://github.com/chrisdew/protobuf

It was forked to add support for nodejs 0.6.x using code from https://github.com/pzgz/protobuf-for-node and to provide better support for future nodejs versions and npm.

Prerequisites:

• NodeJS v0.6.X
• npm

To install on Ubuntu:

wget http://protobuf.googlecode.com/files/protobuf-2.4.1.tar.gz
tar -xzvf protobuf-2.4.1.tar.gz
cd protobuf-2.4.1/
./configure && make && sudo make install
cd "/path/to/app/dir/node_modules"
git clone git://github.com/englercj/protobuf.git protobuf
cd protobuf
npm install

Now protobuf is installed but will not run becuase more than likely you library path does not include protobuf binaries. On Ubuntu you can update this with the following script:

echo "/path/to/app/dir/node_modules/protobuf/build/Release" | tee /etc/ld.so.conf.d/protobuf.conf && ldconfig

Test your install:

You can test your installation by opening the nodejs console (by typing node) and issue the following

require('protobuf');
.exit

You should see the output { Schema: [Function: Schema] }

Issues:

Please report any issues or bugs at https://github.com/englercj/protobuf/issues