This package provides Go support, in the form of a library and protocol compiler plugin, for Google's protocol buffers. (RPC is not supported.)

(Temporary note: the following instructions apply if you're using Go 1. If you're still at r60, for code.google.com/p/goprotobuf below use goinstall and the path is goprotobuf.googlecode.com/hg.)

To install it, you must first have Go installed (see http://code.google.com/p/go/). Next, install the standard protocol buffer implementation from http://code.google.com/p/protobuf/; you must be running version 2.3 or higher.

Finally run

  go get code.google.com/p/goprotobuf/{proto,protoc-gen-go}

to install the support library and protocol compiler.

The README has more information.

The repository has tags "release" and "weekly" that correspond to versions that work with the Go release and weekly tags. If you use the Go repository from, say, "release", and have trouble building goprotobuf, try:

  go get -u code.google.com/p/goprotobuf/...