#grpc

hey guys, does anybody know how big the protoc compiler is when it's installed?

is it super huge?

It looks like about 50MB for libprotobuf, 83MB for libprotoc, and 40MB for protoc (you get all of those when you install protobuf)

what about all the stuff for the other languages?

doesn't it install libraries for java/c# etc/

etc*

The grpc compiler plugins for those are about 13MB each. I think you install the runtime libraries for those separately, and I'm not sure how big they are

hmm

i'm trying to dockerize it and it's like 880MB

Do you have an optimized build of protoc? Its got a ton of debug info in it by default I think.

i don't think so? I'm building it from source. Can you point me in the right direction?

i'm also using the proto3 beta so it works with grpc

I just tried building protoc and it has the -g flag in there

though looking at the ./configure script I don't see where to turn it off

plus that's autogenerated

the config script

hmmm. CFLAGS=-O2 ./configure seems to ignore it :/

You could probably just remove the -g from the Makefile.

Ah, found it. its CXXFLAGS=-O2, not CPPFLAGS

so what does that mean? sorry c++ isn't my forte

gxb (when you get back), there are (only) protoc binaries available at

They are statically linked and 3-5 MB, depending on platform.

The script used to build them is protoc-artifacts/build-protoc.sh

hey does anybody here have experience with protoc and ruby?

i'm trying to build a docker image for building ruby protobuf files for grpc. Is building grpc from scratch the only way to get the protoc plugin?

gxb, I sent you a message when you were gone.

Oh, but that doesn't help you with the grpc protoc plugin

I think Java is the only language that has pre-built binaries of its grpc protoc plugin.

(at this point)

i can deal with it not being prebuilt, but grpc is a monster to build just for the protoc plugin

In general we would expect most people to need the library at the same time as protoc, but yes.

you can build the plugins individually

Running "make grpc_ruby_plugin" doesn't seem too bad. (I'm running it now trying it out)

It does mean building protobuf though.

yes

you guys. are geniuses.