Google protobuf-native doesn't install support .proto's in native

Google protobuf-native doesn't install support .proto's in native

[Matthew Stanger]

`protoc` sourced by the standard Yocto SDK will fail to import "well
known"  supporting protobufs.

Steps to reproduce:

   1. Generated SDK with `protoc` via `DEPENDS = "protobuf-native"`
   2. Source SDK & run `protoc *.proto --cpp_out=.`

Example test.proto file:

syntax = "proto3";

import "google/protobuf/wrappers.proto";

package test;


message TEST

{

google.protobuf.Int64Value test_val = 1;

}

Error:
`google/protobuf/wrappers.proto: File not found.`

The source for `protoc` in my sysroot is
'/opt/poky/2.6.2/sysroots/i686-pokysdk-linux/usr/bin/protoc` however the
`wrappers.proto` is in my build target sysroot
`/opt/poky/2.6.2/sysroots/arm926ejse-poky-linux-gnueabi/usr/include/google/protobuf/wrappers.proto`.

As a hack, copying support files resolved the native run time dependency
issue `sudo cp -p
/opt/poky/2.6.2/sysroots/arm926ejse-poky-linux-gnueabi/usr/include/google/protobuf/*.proto
/opt/poky/2.6.2/sysroots/i686-pokysdk-linux/usr/include/google/protobuf/`

I think the `meta-oe/meta-oe/recipes-devtools/protobuf/protobuf_3.6.1.bb`
needs to also install the `.proto` files in the native sysroot but I'm just
not sure how that'd be done in a recipe.

Thanks,
Matt

Re: Google protobuf-native doesn't install support .proto's in native

[Theodore A. Roth]

On Wed, May 1, 2019 at 9:04 AM Matthew Stanger
<matthew_stanger@trimble.com> wrote:
>
> `protoc` sourced by the standard Yocto SDK will fail to import "well
> known"  supporting protobufs.
>
> Steps to reproduce:
>
>    1. Generated SDK with `protoc` via `DEPENDS = "protobuf-native"`
>    2. Source SDK & run `protoc *.proto --cpp_out=.`

This is not a problem with the protobuf recipe, but in how the SDK was
configured.

I just need to make the following changes to our image's bbappend file
and all of the
protobuf headers were properly added to the SDK we are generating

$ git diff
diff --git a/recipes-core/images/core-image-renew.bbappend
b/recipes-core/images/core-image-renew.bbappend
index 5d75531..198526f 100644
--- a/recipes-core/images/core-image-renew.bbappend
+++ b/recipes-core/images/core-image-renew.bbappend
@@ -1 +1,2 @@
-TOOLCHAIN_HOST_TASK += "nativesdk-protobuf-compiler"
+TOOLCHAIN_HOST_TASK += "nativesdk-protobuf-dev"
+TOOLCHAIN_TARGET_TASK += "protobuf-dev"

Once I built the SDK with that change in place, the project using
protobuf during build
had no problem building using the SDK.

Ted Roth