protobuf-for-node

This is fork of protobuf-for-node library, fixed to work with latest node version (at the time of writing - 0.5.5).

Requirements

Make sure you have installed following libraries:

• libprotobuf-dev (>= 2.3.0)
• libprotobuf-lite6 (>= 2.3.0)
• libprotobuf6 (>= 2.3.0)
• protobuf-compiler (>= 2.3.0)

Installation

1. Latest node.js

protobuf-for-node requires latest version of node (0.5.5).

Ubuntu and deb-based distributions

Installation of latest node is fairly straightforward, and can be done from precompiled deb packages.

Since in main Ubuntu repository contains only stable version of node, you have to add chris-lea/node.js-devel PPA (https://launchpad.net/~chris-lea/+archive/node.js-devel) to /etc/apt/sources.list. For example for Ubuntu 11.04:

deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/chris-lea/node.js-devel/ubuntu natty main 
deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/chris-lea/node.js-devel/ubuntu natty main 

Now execute following:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install nodejs nodejs-dev

Other distributions

For other distributions, following https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Installation is recommended.

2. protobuf

Since this version of protobuf-for-node is not available yet in npm repository, cloning sources is required:

git clone git://github.com/dejw/node-protobuf.git
cd node-protobuf
sudo npm link

Now type:

npm link protobuf

inside project's base directory to load module.

Usage

Usage examples are described here: http://code.google.com/p/protobuf-for-node/

Changes

Version 0.1.3

1. Removed compilation errors against node 0.5.5
2. Fixed makefile script
3. Fixed tests to require protobuf instead of protobuf_for_node

Version 0.1.2

1. Fixed a bug which corrupts field names in proto files.
2. Library compiles in single node module.

Credits

Author: Matthias Ernst
Contributors: Igor Gumenyuk, Dawid Fatyga