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some of these headers aren't used in the protobuf-c code base any more, and in any case the results of these checks (the HAVE_*_H defines in config.h) are not actually used anywhere and the absence of any of these headers doesn't cause configure to fail, so just delete these useless checks.
Overview
This is protobuf-c, a C implementation of Google Protocol Buffers. It includes libprotobuf-c, a pure C library that implements protobuf encoding and decoding, and protoc-c, a code generator that converts Protocol Buffer .proto files to C descriptor code, based on the original protoc. protobuf-c formerly included an RPC implementation; that code has been split out into the protobuf-c-rpc project.
protobuf-c was originally maintained by Dave Benson through version 0.15 but is now being maintained by a new team. Thanks, Dave!
Building
protobuf-c requires a C compiler, a C++ compiler, Google Protocol Buffers, and pkg-config to be installed.
./configure && make && make install
If building from a git checkout, the autotools (autoconf, automake, libtool) must also be installed, and the build system must be generated by running the autogen.sh script.
./autogen.sh && ./configure && make && make install
Synopsis
Include the protobuf-c header file:
#include <protobuf-c/protobuf-c.h>
Link against the protobuf-c library.
-lprotobuf-c
libprotobuf-c includes a pkg-config file. It is recommended to use the pkg-config system in order to determine the complete set of compiler and linker flags for building applications that utilize libprotobuf-c. If using pkg-config with autoconf, the PKG_CHECK_MODULES macro can be used to detect the presence of libprotobuf-c:
PKG_CHECK_MODULES([PROTOBUF_C], [libprotobuf-c])
This will place compiler flags in the PROTOBUF_C_CFLAGS variable and linker flags in the PROTOBUF_C_LDFLAGS variable.
(Note that the protobuf-c header file used to be installed as google/protobuf-c/protobuf-c.h in previous versions.)
Contributing
Please send patches to the protobuf-c mailing list or by opening a GitHub pull request.
Copyright to all contributions are retained by the original author, but must be licensed under the terms of the BSD-2-Clause license. Please add a Signed-off-by header to your commit message (git commit -s) to indicate that you are licensing your contribution under these terms.