How to specify protoc executablePath in a platform independent way?

[valkjsaaa]

I read from the documentation that I'm supposed to provide the path to the protoc binary. Can this be more portable? I think Intel-based Mac vs. ARM-based Mac will have a different path (/opt/homebrew/bin/protoc vs /usr/local/bin/protoc).

"executablePath": "/opt/homebrew/bin/protoc"

[glbrntt]

Unfortunately discovering protoc is somewhat limited by the tools we have.

Because of this you have to set the path in the config or via an environment variable (PROTOC_PATH=...). The latter is a little more flexible. An alternative which may or may not be suitable for your use case would be to symlink protoc to the same path.

Ultimately our goal is to have protoc provided as a binary artefact such that you don't have to have it installed on your system.