[protobuf] A chicken and egg issue when building Protobuf

Hello friends, When building the Protobuf (version 3.13.0) solution in the Microsoft Visual Studio, I noticed that a generated file any.pb.cc is compiled _before_ the protoc executable is created. (The same is true for multiple other generated files.) -- At first sight, that dependency looks

[protobuf] Wrapping Protobuf in an extra namespace

Hello friends, My company uses Protobuf as a shared library. I know that Google recommends linking Protobuf statically, especially if it is used by a shared library, but that is not an option in my case, for reasons that are beyond my control. As a result of dynamic linking, I am encounterin

[protobuf] Starting protobuf in go

Hi, I am new to protobuf and the google environment. Trying to learn about how to use protocol buffers and how its used for communication in google environment. I wanted to learn protocol buf in golang, since my team uses it and I am new to golang as well. Using a google cloudtop for the exerc