protobuf-compile

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Overview

protobuf-compile is a helper tool for running protoc against all of the .proto files in this repository using specific versions of protoc and protoc-gen-go, to ensure consistent results across all development environments.

protoc itself isn't a Go tool, so we need to use a custom strategy to install and run it. The official releases are built only for a subset of platforms that Go can potentially target, so this tool will fail if you are using a platform other than the ones this wrapper tool has explicit support for. In that case you'll need to either run this tool on a supported platform or to recreate what it does manually using a protoc you've built and installed yourself.