protobuf

Install command: 
brew install protobuf

Also known as: protobuf@35

Protocol buffers (Google's data interchange format)

https://protobuf.dev/

License: BSD-3-Clause

Development: Pull requests

Formula JSON API: /api/formula/protobuf.json

Formula code: protobuf.rb on GitHub

Bottle (binary package) installation support provided for:

macOS on
Apple Silicon		 tahoe ✅
sequoia ✅
sonoma ✅
macOS on
Intel		 sonoma ✅
Linux ARM64 ✅
x86_64 ✅

Current versions:

stable ✅ 35.1

Other versions:

protobuf@33 33.6 Protocol buffers (Google's data interchange format)
protobuf@29 29.6 Protocol buffers (Google's data interchange format)
protobuf@21 21.12 Protocol buffers (Google's data interchange format)

Depends on:

abseil 20260107.1 C++ Common Libraries

Depends on when building from source:

cmake 4.4.0 Cross-platform make
googletest 1.17.0 Google Testing and Mocking Framework

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