https://deploy-preview-3199--dubbo.netlify.app/en/overview/reference/Recent content in Others on Apache DubboHugoenhttps://deploy-preview-3199--dubbo.netlify.app/en/overview/reference/protoc-installation/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://deploy-preview-3199--dubbo.netlify.app/en/overview/reference/protoc-installation/<p>Although not mandatory, Apache Dubbo supports using <a href="https://protobuf.dev/programming-guides/proto3">Protocol Buffers (proto3)</a> for service definitions and serialization protocols.</p> <p>Within the protocol buffer framework, we use <code>.proto</code> files to define services and message body formats, and the <code>protoc</code> compiler to compile <code>.proto</code> files. You can install <code>protoc</code> in the following ways.</p> <h3 id="installing-via-package-manager">Installing via Package Manager</h3> <p>On Linux or macOS, you can use a package manager to install <code>protoc</code>.</p> <div class="alert alert-warning" role="alert"> <h4 class="alert-heading">Warning</h4> <p><strong>Be sure to check the installed version of <code>protoc</code>!</strong> This can be done as described below, since some package managers might install severely outdated versions of <code>protoc</code>.</p>