1// Protocol Buffers - Google's data interchange format
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31// Author: kenton@google.com (Kenton Varda)
32//  Based on original Protocol Buffers design by
33//  Sanjay Ghemawat, Jeff Dean, and others.
34//
35// This file exists solely to document the google::protobuf::compiler namespace.
36// It is not compiled into anything, but it may be read by an automated
37// documentation generator.
38
39namespace google {
40
41namespace protobuf {
42
43// Implementation of the Protocol Buffer compiler.
44//
45// This package contains code for parsing .proto files and generating code
46// based on them.  There are two reasons you might be interested in this
47// package:
48// - You want to parse .proto files at runtime.  In this case, you should
49//   look at importer.h.  Since this functionality is widely useful, it is
50//   included in the libprotobuf base library; you do not have to link against
51//   libprotoc.
52// - You want to write a custom protocol compiler which generates different
53//   kinds of code, e.g. code in a different language which is not supported
54//   by the official compiler.  For this purpose, command_line_interface.h
55//   provides you with a complete compiler front-end, so all you need to do
56//   is write a custom implementation of CodeGenerator and a trivial main()
57//   function.  You can even make your compiler support the official languages
58//   in addition to your own.  Since this functionality is only useful to those
59//   writing custom compilers, it is in a separate library called "libprotoc"
60//   which you will have to link against.
61namespace compiler {}
62
63}  // namespace protobuf
64}  // namespace google
65