1# Publish pre-compiled protoc artifacts 2``protoc`` is the compiler for ``.proto`` files. It generates language bindings 3for the messages and/or RPC services from ``.proto`` files. 4 5Because ``protoc`` is a native executable, the scripts under this directory 6publish a ``protoc`` executable (a.k.a. artifact) to Maven repositories. The 7artifact can be used by build automation tools so that users would not need to 8compile and install ``protoc`` for their systems. 9 10If you would like us to publish protoc artifact for a new platform, please 11open an issue to request it. 12 13## Maven Location 14The published protoc artifacts are available on Maven here: 15 16 https://repo.maven.apache.org/maven2/com/google/protobuf/protoc/ 17 18## Versioning 19The version of the ``protoc`` artifact must be the same as the version of the 20Protobuf project. 21 22## Artifact name 23The name of a published ``protoc`` artifact is in the following format: 24``protoc-<version>-<os>-<arch>.exe``, e.g., ``protoc-3.6.1-linux-x86_64.exe``. 25 26Note that artifacts for linux/macos also have the `.exe` suffix but they are 27not windows binaries. 28 29## System requirement 30Install [Apache Maven](http://maven.apache.org/) if you don't have it. 31 32The scripts only work under Unix-like environments, e.g., Linux, MacOSX, and 33Cygwin or MinGW for Windows. Please see ``README.md`` of the Protobuf project 34for how to set up the build environment. 35 36## Tested build environments 37We have successfully built artifacts on the following environments: 38- Linux x86_32 and x86_64: 39 - Centos 6.9 (within Docker 1.6.1) 40 - Ubuntu 14.04.5 64-bit 41- Linux aarch_64: Cross compiled with `g++-aarch64-linux-gnu` on Ubuntu 14.04.5 64-bit 42- Mac OS X x86_32 and x86_64: Mac OS X 10.9.5 43