From 47f4ddb0115b5bc6e995ab14af3cc7507b59c497 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: figgefigge Date: Mon, 6 Nov 2023 06:47:32 +0100 Subject: Added info about missing protoc (#1275) Co-authored-by: figgefigge --- README.md | 19 +++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 19 insertions(+) (limited to 'README.md') diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index 11568de3..bc55424b 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -348,6 +348,25 @@ mdbook test candle-book -L .\target\debug\deps\ ` This may be caused by the models being loaded from `/mnt/c`, more details on [stackoverflow](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/68972448/why-is-wsl-extremely-slow-when-compared-with-native-windows-npm-yarn-processing). +#### Missing protoc installation when compiling candle-onnx + +The candle-onnx dependency prost-build no longer comes bundled with prost binaries. This could cause the following error when attempting to compile candle-onnx: + +``` +error: failed to run custom build command for `candle-onnx v0.3.0 (C:\Projekt\candle\candle-onnx)` +Caused by: // (...) + Could not find `protoc` installation and this build crate cannot proceed without + this knowledge. +``` + +To fix this issue: + +1. Download protoc for your platform from the official Protocol Buffers GitHub repository: [github.com/protocolbuffers/protobuf/releases](https://github.com/protocolbuffers/protobuf/releases). +2. Extract the protoc binary from the downloaded archive's bin folder. +3. Add the location of the protoc binary to your system's PATH, or set the location in a new PROTOC environment variable. + +This should resolve the error and allow you to compile candle-onnx successfully. + #### Tracking down errors You can set `RUST_BACKTRACE=1` to be provided with backtraces when a candle -- cgit v1.2.3