Name: Protocol Buffers Short Name: protobuf URL: https://github.com/google/protobuf License: BSD License File: LICENSE Version: 3.3.0 Revision: 040f56e61b379e92dfdf107b12244a7580f60823 Security Critical: yes Steps used to create the current version: 1. Pull the release from https://github.com/google/protobuf/releases 2. Add build files (BUILD.gn, proto_library.gni). Be sure to update the list of source files, as additional .cc files and headers might have been added -- you need to find the transitive closure of include files required by targets. Other things to care about are defines required by protobuf on various platforms, warnings generated by compilers, and new dependencies introduced. 3. Add DEPS and OWNERS. 4. Add mirclient.cc and mirclient.map. 5. Get open-source library six.py from https://pypi.python.org/pypi/six/ and add it to protobuf/third_party/six/six.py. 6. Apply patches in patches/ (see the description below): $ for patch in patches/*; do patch -s -p1 < $patch; done For future releases, it will be worth looking into which patches still need to be applied. In case of conflict, update those patches accordingly and save them back in place (i.e. in patches directory). 7. Generate well_known_types_embed.cc and descriptor_pb2.py using something like the following steps. Make sure you've regenerated your buildfiles and will build js_embed then protoc from the newly-modified sources above. $ cd $SRC_DIR $ gn gen out/Debug $ ninja -C out/Debug js_embed $ cd third_party/protobuf/src/google/protobuf/compiler/js $ $SRC_DIR/out/Debug/js_embed \ ./well_known_types/any.js ./well_known_types/struct.js \ ./well_known_types/timestamp.js > well_known_types_embed.cc $ cd $SRC_DIR $ ninja -C out/Debug protoc $ cd third_party/protobuf/src $ $SRC_DIR/out/Debug/protoc --python_out=../python google/protobuf/descriptor.proto 8. Add an __init__.py to protobuf/ that adds third_party/six/ to Python path. 9. Update README.chromium. Note about libmirclient: On Ubuntu, Chromium has an indirect dependency on the system libprotobuf-lite through libmirclient (through GTK). The symbols in the system library conflict with Chromium's libprotobuf-lite used on component builds. mirclient.* are added to stub out libmirclient.so.9 to prevent loading the system libprotobuf-lite. Chromium's replacement libmirclient will get loaded, but its symbols will never be used directly or indirectly. Description of the patches: - 0003-remove-static-initializers.patch This patch removes all static initializers from Chromium. The change in Status class is not completely compatible with upstream, but it's compatible enough to work in Chromium, which doesn't use this functionality yet. The work on upstreaming the removal of static initializers is in progress: https://github.com/google/protobuf/issues/1404 - 0004-fix-integer-types-and-shared-library-exports.patch This patch makes protobuf int64 to be int64_t (as opposed to long long in upstream), and similarly for other integer types. It also allows exporting protobuf symbols in Linux .so libraries, so that protobuf can be built as a component (see http://crrev.com/179806). - 0007-uninline_googleonce.patch - 0008-uninline_get_empty_string.patch - 0009-uninline-arenastring.patch - 0010-uninline-generated-code.patch These patches uninline some functions, resulting in a significant reduction (somewhere between 500 KB and 1 MB) of binary size. - 0012-fixes-for-js-embed-cc.patch Fixed in https://github.com/google/protobuf/pull/1549 - 0013-fixes-expansion-to-defined.patch Fixes a macro whose expansion has a defined() in it. This is results in undefined behavior and some compilers will warn/error when seeing this. - 0014-truncate-uint8-constants.patch Fixed upstream in CL 161573822 - 0015-fixes-forcing-value-to-bool.patch Fixes an MSVC error that forbids conversion from int to bool. Needs to be upstreamed. - 0014-truncate-uint8-constants.patch Fixed upstream in CL 163270735 - 0017-constexpr-for-vs-2017.patch Define PROTOBUF_CONSTEXPR_VAR as constexpr for VS 2017, also landed upstream as https://github.com/google/protobuf/commit/210be267fd81d5aafdc049d197d57cb45b75f3ba - 0018-fallthrough.patch Cherry-picks upstream https://github.com/google/protobuf/commit/b8e47830d - 0019-rename-a-shadowed-variable.patch Cherry-picks upstream https://github.com/google/protobuf/commit/af3813cd7 - 0020-Add-support-for-libc-on-Windows.patch Cherry-picks upstream https://github.com/google/protobuf/commit/3ba21cd5f