Protobuf: Import "google/protobuf/descriptor.proto" was not found or had errors.

[hy93]

When I compile a proto file, it came out this error.
I already place "protoc" in PATH and copy the contents of the 'include' directory into '/usr/local/include/'.

[dsnet]

Does this work if you invoke protoc explicitly with that include path?

protoc -I/usr/local/include $ARGS

If that doesn't work, what are contents of /usr/local/include/google/protobuf?

[dsnet]

Closing as stale. Reply on the issue if it doesn't fix the problem and we can discuss further.

[Chandruhere4u]

Does this work if you invoke protoc explicitly with that include path?

protoc -I/usr/local/include $ARGS

If that doesn't work, what are contents of /usr/local/include/google/protobuf?

It worked for me. However, it should work without explicitly providing "include" folder, right? am I missing some configuration. Thanks for your reply and time.

[dsnet]

am I missing some configuration.

Possibly? I'm not sure where protoc checks to know where to derive the default list of include paths. That's a question better asked on https://github.com/protocolbuffers/protobuf

[neild]

IIRC, protoc looks for includes relative to the protoc binary. So if protoc is in /usr/local/bin, then it will look in /usr/local/include.