This is a sample rust application showing how to build and use protobufs with prost in rust

protoc installation instructions

Just in case the link goes dead, here's the instructions

Linux, using apt or apt-get, for example:

$ apt install -y protobuf-compiler
$ protoc --version  # Ensure compiler version is 3+

MacOS, using Homebrew:

$ brew install protobuf
$ protoc --version  # Ensure compiler version is 3+

The build.rs is the main entry point for building the protobuf files. For this example, we're using the walkdir crate to get the full path for all the .proto files. Normally, you'd specify all of the files in the first slice, but I'm lazy like that.

You'll need to recreate your package structure using mod blocks. It's useful to do this in a lib.rs for your project. See src/lib.rs for an example.

##Generated code location debug/build/prost_example-{}/out/

The build directory varies.