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

To install it, you must first have Go (version 1) installed (see http://golang.org/doc/install). 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/...