Question

I’m working with protobuf and Linux. Where is its compiler protoc? I’ve downloaded the package from the main site, compiled and installed it successfully but I can’t find protoc to build my own format file. Where is it?

UPDATE
Here is folder where I built protobuf:

aclocal.m4        depcomp                       Makefile.in
autogen.sh        editors                       missing
CHANGES.txt       examples                      protobuf-lite.pc
config.guess      generate_descriptor_proto.sh  protobuf-lite.pc.in
config.h          gtest                         protobuf.pc
config.h.in       install-sh                    protobuf.pc.in
config.log        INSTALL.txt                   python
config.status     java                          README.txt
config.sub        libtool                       src
configure         ltmain.sh                     stamp-h1
configure.ac      m4                            vsprojects
CONTRIBUTORS.txt  Makefile
COPYING.txt       Makefile.am

There isn’t a binary file I need.

Answer 1

It’s probably installed into /usr/local/bin

On Ubuntu at least, you can apt-get install protobuf-compiler instead.

From the INSTALL.txt:

Installation Names

By default, ‘make install’ will install the package’s files in
‘/usr/local/bin’, ‘/usr/local/man’, etc. You can specify an
installation prefix other than ‘/usr/local’ by giving ‘configure’ the
option ‘–prefix=PATH’.