The Dart protoc plug-in is not supported on Windows

[unicomp21]

lots of errors in the latest dart editor, also, can this be built on Windows? or just Linux?

[sgjesse]

Currently the protoc plug-in is only tested on Linux. The tests run on drone.io (https://drone.io/github.com/dart-lang/dart-protoc-plugin). The plug-in created (out/protoc-gen-dart) is a script file which might work on Windows in MinGW or cygwin.

[albertog]

please add windows support

[osstekz]

YES, PLEASE add windows support

[dss539]

It appears the only thing hindering Windows support is that one bash script.
You can work around this by creating a file named protoc-gen-dart.bat alongside the existing protoc-gen-dart shell script.
Inside the bat file, add this content...

@echo off
pushd %~dp0
set BINDIR=%CD%
popd
dart "%BINDIR%\protoc_plugin.dart" -c "%*"

When you invoke protoc, use these args:

protoc ^^my_message.proto^^ --plugin=protoc-gen-dart=^^C:\dart-protoc-plugin\bin^^\protoc-gen-dart.bat --dart_out=.

replace sections enclosed by ^^ with your own filename/path

[sigurdm]

After protocolbuffers/protobuf#5105 has come into a release you should be able to pub global activate protoc_plugin, add the pub cache to your path and run protoc --dart_out=....

[letmefly]

please support windows platform, ths

[sigurdm]

@letmefly could you elaborate on what you are trying, what versions you are using and what goes wrong?
Windows should be supported now.

I have just tried out the combination of protoc-3.7.1, dart 2.2.0 and protoc_plugin v. 16.0.1 on windows-server-2016.
I installed dart protoc_plugin with:

pub global activate protoc_plugin

Make sure C:\Users<username>\AppData\Roaming\Pub\Cache\bin is in your %path.

And ran:

protoc-3.7.1-win64\bin\protoc.exe --dart_out=. -Iprotos test.proto

And everything seemed to work.