Leginon

Portobuf installation instruction¶

Google Protobuf is an open source communication library DE 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. A simple way to install this for python use on DE camera computer (Windows) follows:

1. Download 2.3.0 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.

Note: If it attempts to install 0.6c9 version of setuptools and failed to obtain the file, download the ez_setup.py file from setuptools for Windows 7 at https://bitbucket.org/pypa/setuptools/raw/bootstrap/ez_setup.py You can then replace the one in your protobuf-2.3.0/python folder.