MASSA PROTO AS

Generated AssemblyScrict source code from protobuf files for Massa blockchain.

Development

Node version

A recent version of node is required to use as-proto-gen. Using fnm allow to easily install node in the projet directory.

After having installed and configured fnm simply run:

fnm install v20.2.0

then (at the root of the project):

node --version > .node-version

After this npm install and npm run asbuild:proto should run smoothly.

Compilation on different OSes

One can specify the the plugin to use to protoc for code generation, or it can guess it based on other arguments. For a full command line, on Linux we would need to add --plugin=protoc-gen-as=./node_modules/.bin/as-proto-gen to protoc invocation. But it does not work on Windows.

So we chose to let protoc guesse and helped it a bit. If protoc has to guess its plugin it must be named protoc-gen-as and be available in the PATH or in node search directory.

Hence we added some links in node_modules/.bin.

Windows users must had to their PATH for the build to work.