using protobuf version 2.6.1 ( which i installed via homebrew)
I am trying to run
$ protoc --go_out=../cloud/ *.proto
I keep receiving this error.
$ protoc-gen-go: program not found or is not executable
$ --go_out: protoc-gen-go: Plugin failed with status code 1.
I have the protoc-gen-go installed in my go path. Anyone else have this issue?
protoc-gen-go needs to be in your shell path, i.e. one of the directories listed in the PATH environment variable, which is different from the Go path. You can test this by simply typing protoc-gen-go at the command line: If it says "command not found" (or similar) then it's not in your PATH.
On Ubuntu 18.04, this is verified working to solve this issue:
sudo apt-get install golang-goprotobuf-dev
Using
$ go get -u github.com/golang/protobuf/{proto,protoc-gen-go}
is more safe than using
$ sudo apt-get install golang-goprotobuf-dev
Because the latest protoc-gen-go is using the lib github.com/golang/protobuf/proto, but protoc-gen-go in apt-get using the lib code.google.com/p/goprotobuf/proto which didn't exist now.
I met the same problem.
$ protoc --go_out=plugins=grpc:pb/ *.proto
protoc-gen-go: program not found or is not executable
--go_out: protoc-gen-go: Plugin failed with status code 1.
The solution as below:
Find the installation directory of protoc-gen-go, it must be in your $PATH.
export PATH=$PATH:/path/to/dir
You'd better add it to your .bash_profile
echo $"export PATH=\$PATH:$(/path/to/dir)" >> ~/.bash_profile
source ~/.bash_profile
then everything is ok.
How I solved:
$GOPATH/bin to PATH by running export PATH=$PATH:$GOPATH/binexport GOPATH=$(go env GOPATH) above export PATH=$PATH:$GOPATH/bin line inside the .bash_profile file.go get -u for the required packages again.protoc --go_out=../cloud/ *.proto in your case.You should properly define your GO_PATH - where your go packages live. In other words, GO_PATH is your go workspace. The GO_PATH should be ~/go.
protoc-gen-go should be in your PATH. While protoc-gen-go lives in $GO_PATH/bin after you installed it.
Add these 2 important lines to your ~/.bash_profile:
export GO_PATH=~/go
export PATH=$PATH:/$GO_PATH/bin
Then you need to start a new shell session or just type in this line:
$ source ~/.bash_profile
Mby will help for somebody. I'm on Fedora 29.
When I installed Go I did:
echo 'export GOPATH=$HOME/Go' >> $HOME/.bashrc
source $HOME/.bashrc
So I have my GOPATH set up. Next I do:
echo 'export PATH=$PATH:$GOPATH/bin' >> $HOME/.bashrc
source $HOME/.bashrc
And my protoc compiler work lika a charm.
Ensure that your path to proton-gen-go in your PATH variable is absolute (i.e. /Users/me/go/bin instead of ~/go/bin.
Apparently protoc does not know how to expand ~.
I have Ubuntu 18.04.02 LTS and installed protoc using
sudo apt install protobuf-compiler
I have my GOPATH and GOBIN set correctly, but still when I did a protoc --go_out=. <filename> I was getting
protoc-gen-go: program not found or is not executable
--go_out: protoc-gen-go: Plugin failed with status code 1.
After reading bunch of places, was able to find that doing
go get -u github.com/golang/protobuf/protoc-gen-go
was able to fix the issue. Hope this helps someone out there.
What I did to solve this was:
copy protoc-gen-go from the go bin folder in go workspace to /usr/local/bin/
run your command as before in your case "protoc --go_out=../cloud/ *.proto"