Portobuf installation instruction¶

Google Protobuf is a open source communication library we use between client and server. For C++ programs, it is built into the program, so no external library installation is needed. However, for Python/Leginon only, the library will need to be added.

1. A simple way on Windows to install is to download 2.3.0 (or up) source zip file as well as the win32.zip binary file
2. Unzip both packages. Copy the binary into protobuf\src folder
3. Go into protobuf\python and run "python setup.py install" and that's it.