[mosh-users] why i failed to build mosh? i have installed protobuf, but configure said it cannot find it, why?

[Alex Chernyakhovsky]

Hi,

Is there a protoc binary available in your $PATH?

Sincerely,
-Alex


On Fri, Jun 13, 2014 at 12:49 AM, wowmailman <wowmailman at qq.com> wrote:
> i have tried lots of options, and all failed to build mosh.
> the main part of error message is as follows:
>
> ./configure CFLAGS=-I/home/bigforest/ins_t/include
> LDFLAGS=-L/home/bigforest/ins_t/lib --prefix=$HOME/ins_t
> checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
> checking whether build environment is sane... yes
> checking for a thread-safe mkdir -p... /bin/mkdir -p
> checking for gawk... gawk
> checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes
> checking for gcc... gcc
> checking for C compiler default output file name... a.out
> checking whether the C compiler works... yes
> checking whether we are cross compiling... no
> checking for suffix of executables...
> checking for suffix of object files... o
> checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... yes
> checking whether gcc accepts -g... yes
> checking for gcc option to accept ISO C89... none needed
> checking for style of include used by make... GNU
> checking dependency style of gcc... gcc3
> checking for g++... g++
> checking whether we are using the GNU C++ compiler... yes
> checking whether g++ accepts -g... yes
> checking dependency style of g++... gcc3
> checking for ranlib... ranlib
> checking for protoc... no
> configure: error: cannot find protoc, the Protocol Buffers compiler
>
>
> ./configure --libdir=$HOME/ins_t/lib --includedir=$HOME/ins_t/include
> failed with the same error
>
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