lua-pb-tools

This is a small set of tools and scripts for building lua-protobuf from protoc-gen-lua.

Get the tools:

From a folder, say your desktop, open a terminal and enter the following:

git clone https://github.com/cjtallman/lua-pb-tools.git
cd lua-pb-tools
build.bat

Now, if successful, the command will create a folder named compiled. This folder will contain the necessary files and folders for compiling a proto file into its lua module representation.

Compiling a proto file:

Navigate into the compiled folder and use the compile_proto.bat script to compile a proto file to a lua module. The output will be <basename>_pb.lua. So if the proto file is named Address.proto, then the output will be Address_pb.lua.

cd compiled
compile_proto.bat person.proto

The output file is a lua module that can be loaded with require().

Note, for the module to load correctly, the protobuf folder needs to be in the lua package paths.

Run the example:

cd compiled\example
lua51.exe test.lua