ProtoCTask

Sun, 31 Jul 2016 20:00:00 -0700

DHowett/ProtoCTask (HowettNET GitLab) DHowett/ProtoCTask

ProtoCTask is an MSBuild task that will invoke the protobuf compiler for any .proto files in your MSBuild-based project. It was originally developed for Visual Studio 2015 and has not received an update since then.

<PropertyGroup>
  <ProtoCTaskDir>path\to\directory\containing\ProtoC.props</ProtoCTaskDir>
</PropertyGroup>
<Import Project="$(ProtoCTaskDir)\ProtoC.props" />
<Import Project="$(ProtoCTaskDir)\ProtoC.targets" />

<!-- ... -->

<ItemGroup>
  <Protobuf Include="File.proto" />
</ItemGroup>

NOTE: If you build this from source, it currently requires bin/protoc.exe to be added to the staging directory manually.

Automatically generates .pb.cc files and passes them to ClCompile.
Adds the directory containing the .pb.h files to the ClCompile include path.
Does dependency tracking for minimal rebuilds.

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ProtoCTask