install protocol buffer compiler error under Mac

Question

I installed the protobuf complier following: Download Protocol Buffers full source from here: http://code.google.com/p/protobuf/downloads/list Extract it and go to the extraction directory from terminal 1.Run ./configure 2.Run make 3.Run sudo make install

After I run make, the error shows. someone know how to fix it?

Thanks in advance!!

/Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/usr/bin/make all-recursive Making all in .

Making all in src

/bin/sh ../libtool --tag=CXX --mode=link g++ -D_THREAD_SAFE -Wall -Wwrite-strings -Woverloaded-virtual -Wno-sign-compare -O2 -g -DNDEBUG -D_THREAD_SAFE -o protoc main.o libprotobuf.la libprotoc.la -lz

libtool: link: cannot find the library 2/src/libprotobuf.la' or unhandled argument2/src/libprotobuf.la'

make[2]: * [protoc] Error 1

make[1]: * [all-recursive] Error 1

make: * [all] Error 2

Answer 1

I'm seeing this too - and I diagnosed the problem. It's simple enough - the download directory path contains a space character. Simply move or rename the download directory so it no longer contains a space character and everything works.

Please see my bug report here.