Ant BuildException Cannot run program “..\src\protoc”

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Error that I am getting when trying to run mvn test on google protobuf library.

[INFO] Executing tasks
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[ERROR] BUILD ERROR
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] An Ant BuildException has occured: Execute failed: java.io.IOException: Cannot run program "..\src\protoc": CreateProcess error=2, The system c
annot find the file specified

[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] For more information, run Maven with the -e switch

I did place protoc.exe in the src directory. As a side note this is running on windows machine.

Quick solution that I found was to edit the pom.xml file and modify the Ant tast into

java

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7 responses to “Ant BuildException Cannot run program “..\src\protoc””

November 9, 2010

ratish

Hi,

It worked for me too. Changed the executable, in my case from mvn to mvn.bat
Thanks,
Ratish

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July 3, 2011

Dimitar Stefanov

10x
I wouldn’t have be able to do it, alone!

I was screaming into the monitor, already.

It’s not documented at all, how to compile this .jar thing:
So just use Maven in protobuf-2.4.1\java , but first put the protoc in protobuf-2.4.1\src.

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July 13, 2012

Fuzzy ANalysis

Lifesaver! Thanks so much.

P.S. you will also need to change the reference to protoc.exe wherever you see

… in the .pom file, if you want to do other things (test etc).

Cheers 🙂

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March 4, 2016

Jayasree

I have protoc.exe file in src folder.
And also I mentioned the path to protoc in pom.xml as “../src/protoc.exe”.
I am still getting the same error.
I am running in windows.

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September 30, 2017

anon

lie, doesn’t work at all. still gives the same error

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1. November 27, 2017
  
  Greg
  
  I am sorry that you feel that way.
  
  Reply
April 13, 2018

Ömercan

Its work man. Thank you so much. Lifesaver !!!

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