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compilation issue in protobuf with nanopb


I am using nanopb library

I seek your suggestion to resolve build issue - I am using protobuf 3.12,nanopb 0.4.2, puython3,gcc . I compiled protoc both c and python but still faced issue while building.

make 
protoc -osimple.pb simple.proto   - step done 
nanopb/examples/simple $ python ../../generator/nanopb_generator.py simple.pb -> following error
$ python3 ../../generator/nanopb_generator.py simple.pb Traceback (most recent call last): File "../../generator/nanopb_generator.py", line 50, in from .proto import nanopb_pb2 SystemError: Parent module '' not loaded, cannot perform relative import

During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:

Traceback (most recent call last): File "../../generator/nanopb_generator.py", line 71, in import proto.nanopb_pb2 as nanopb_pb2 File "/home/vagrant/nanopb-0.4.2-linux-x86/generator/proto/nanopb_pb2.py", line 10, in from google.protobuf import symbol_database as _symbol_database ImportError: cannot import name 'symbol_database'

Please tell me what I am missing. Am I supposed to use Python2 only ?
Also what features of protobuf are not recommended to use in nanopb ? Does nanopb supports both proto2 and proto3 syntax ?


Solution

  • generator/proto/nanopb_pb2.py", line 10, in from google.protobuf import symbol_database as _symbol_database ImportError: cannot import name 'symbol_database'

    It seems there may be a version conflict between protoc version and your python-protobuf version. Try to remove nanopb_pb2.py, it should get autogenerated again possibly with better luck.

    Considering you are using the binary package, you can also call generator_bin/nanopb_generator, which should have all the dependencies already included.