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Add bazel targets for standalone plugin binaries
bufdev Oct 10, 2025
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Make the targets public
srikrsna-buf Oct 10, 2025
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Merge pull request #1 from srikrsna-buf/standalone-plugins
bufdev Oct 10, 2025
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Rename to `plugin_main.cc`
srikrsna-buf Oct 15, 2025
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Merge pull request #2 from srikrsna-buf/standalone-plugins
bufdev Oct 16, 2025
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Merge branch 'main' into standalone-plugins
bufdev Nov 12, 2025
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Merge branch 'standalone-plugins' of https://github.com/bufdev/protob…
bufdev Nov 12, 2025
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Merge branch 'main' into standalone-plugins
bufdev May 16, 2026
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Fix
bufdev May 17, 2026
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Hopefully fix
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2 changes: 1 addition & 1 deletion src/google/protobuf/compiler/cpp/BUILD.bazel
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cc_binary(
name = "protoc-gen-cpp",
srcs = ["main.cc"],
visibility = ["//:__pkg__"],
visibility = ["//visibility:public"],

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Can you mark these all as //visibility:private for now? While we may want to officially support and release standalone binaries for these plugins at some point in the future, we would likely need to add corresponding supporte policies and / or poison pills to ensure protoc and plugin are used with supported version combinations first. Currently defacto with the built-in generators is that protoc + plugins are necessarily at the same version by default.

Keeping these private for now may help a bit with accidental mis-use in the interim, until we can get guardrails in place.

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Unfortunately, making these private would pretty much defeat the goal of this PR - making these usable by others is the whole point :-)

Re: poison pills, do you just mean something like https://github.com/bufbuild/buf/blob/d500877026294fa52819fb20b98101d2c2c70fe3/private/gen/proto/go/buf/alpha/image/v1/image.pb.go#L33 or do you mean something more extensive? If this, we're happy to do this in this PR. If something more extensive, I'd question the need or desire - the rest of the Protobuf plugin ecosystem functions just fine without these type of block FWIW, and I think that's appropriate.

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Yep, I was referring to some sort of version check enforcing only compatible versions are used!

Discussed with the team and it should be ok to accept these as public targets. Note though that we don't have guarantees for these in our support matrix yet for how these targets would be expected to behave yet esp when versions are mixed, so I do err on preffering some guardrails here (but followup should be fine for that).

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OK great to hear. Other than the failing tests below (which I think are unrelated, I'll merge the latest from main) is there anything else you'd like us to do in this PR?

deps = [
":cpp",
"//src/google/protobuf/compiler:plugin",
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load("@rules_pkg//pkg:mappings.bzl", "pkg_files", "strip_prefix")
load("//build_defs:cpp_opts.bzl", "COPTS")

cc_binary(
name = "protoc-gen-csharp",
srcs = ["main.cc"],
visibility = ["//visibility:public"],
deps = [
":csharp",
"//src/google/protobuf/compiler:plugin",
],
)

cc_library(
name = "names",
srcs = ["names.cc"],
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// Protocol Buffers - Google's data interchange format
// Copyright 2008 Google Inc. All rights reserved.
//
// Use of this source code is governed by a BSD-style
// license that can be found in the LICENSE file or at
// https://developers.google.com/open-source/licenses/bsd

#include "google/protobuf/compiler/csharp/csharp_generator.h"
#include "google/protobuf/compiler/plugin.h"

int main(int argc, char *argv[]) {
google::protobuf::compiler::csharp::Generator generator;
return google::protobuf::compiler::PluginMain(argc, argv, &generator);
}
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],
)

cc_binary(
name = "protoc-gen-java",
srcs = ["plugin_main.cc"],
visibility = ["//visibility:public"],
deps = [
":java",
"//src/google/protobuf/compiler:plugin",
],
)

cc_library(
name = "names",
hdrs = ["names.h"],
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load("//build_defs:cpp_opts.bzl", "COPTS")

cc_binary(
name = "protoc-gen-kotlin",
srcs = ["main.cc"],
visibility = ["//visibility:public"],
deps = [
":kotlin",
"//src/google/protobuf/compiler:plugin",
],
)

cc_library(
name = "generator_headers",
hdrs = ["generator.h"],
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// Protocol Buffers - Google's data interchange format
// Copyright 2008 Google Inc. All rights reserved.
//
// Use of this source code is governed by a BSD-style
// license that can be found in the LICENSE file or at
// https://developers.google.com/open-source/licenses/bsd

#include "google/protobuf/compiler/kotlin/generator.h"
#include "google/protobuf/compiler/plugin.h"

int main(int argc, char *argv[]) {
google::protobuf::compiler::kotlin::KotlinGenerator generator;
return google::protobuf::compiler::PluginMain(argc, argv, &generator);
}
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load("@rules_pkg//pkg:mappings.bzl", "pkg_files", "strip_prefix")
load("//build_defs:cpp_opts.bzl", "COPTS")

cc_binary(
name = "protoc-gen-objectivec",
srcs = ["main.cc"],
visibility = ["//visibility:public"],
deps = [
":objectivec",
"//src/google/protobuf/compiler:plugin",
],
)

cc_library(
name = "names",
hdrs = ["names.h"],
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// Protocol Buffers - Google's data interchange format
// Copyright 2008 Google Inc. All rights reserved.
//
// Use of this source code is governed by a BSD-style
// license that can be found in the LICENSE file or at
// https://developers.google.com/open-source/licenses/bsd

#include "google/protobuf/compiler/objectivec/generator.h"
#include "google/protobuf/compiler/plugin.h"

int main(int argc, char *argv[]) {
google::protobuf::compiler::objectivec::ObjectiveCGenerator generator;
return google::protobuf::compiler::PluginMain(argc, argv, &generator);
}
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load("@rules_pkg//pkg:mappings.bzl", "pkg_files", "strip_prefix")
load("//build_defs:cpp_opts.bzl", "COPTS")

cc_binary(
name = "protoc-gen-php",
srcs = ["main.cc"],
visibility = ["//visibility:public"],
deps = [
":php",
"//src/google/protobuf/compiler:plugin",
],
)

cc_library(
name = "names",
srcs = ["names.cc"],
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// Protocol Buffers - Google's data interchange format
// Copyright 2008 Google Inc. All rights reserved.
//
// Use of this source code is governed by a BSD-style
// license that can be found in the LICENSE file or at
// https://developers.google.com/open-source/licenses/bsd

#include "google/protobuf/compiler/php/php_generator.h"
#include "google/protobuf/compiler/plugin.h"

int main(int argc, char *argv[]) {
google::protobuf::compiler::php::Generator generator;
return google::protobuf::compiler::PluginMain(argc, argv, &generator);
}
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load("@rules_pkg//pkg:mappings.bzl", "pkg_files", "strip_prefix")
load("//build_defs:cpp_opts.bzl", "COPTS")

cc_binary(
name = "protoc-gen-python",
srcs = ["plugin_main.cc"],
visibility = ["//visibility:public"],
deps = [
":python",
"//src/google/protobuf/compiler:plugin",
],
)

cc_binary(
name = "protoc-gen-pyi",
srcs = ["pyi_main.cc"],
visibility = ["//visibility:public"],
deps = [
":python",
"//src/google/protobuf/compiler:plugin",
],
)

cc_library(
name = "generator_headers",
hdrs = [
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// Protocol Buffers - Google's data interchange format
// Copyright 2008 Google Inc. All rights reserved.
//
// Use of this source code is governed by a BSD-style
// license that can be found in the LICENSE file or at
// https://developers.google.com/open-source/licenses/bsd

#include "google/protobuf/compiler/plugin.h"
#include "google/protobuf/compiler/python/pyi_generator.h"

int main(int argc, char *argv[]) {
google::protobuf::compiler::python::PyiGenerator generator;
return google::protobuf::compiler::PluginMain(argc, argv, &generator);
}
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load("@rules_pkg//pkg:mappings.bzl", "pkg_files", "strip_prefix")
load("//build_defs:cpp_opts.bzl", "COPTS")

cc_binary(
name = "protoc-gen-ruby",
srcs = ["main.cc"],
visibility = ["//visibility:public"],
deps = [
":ruby",
"//src/google/protobuf/compiler:plugin",
],
)

cc_library(
name = "generator_headers",
hdrs = ["ruby_generator.h"],
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// Protocol Buffers - Google's data interchange format
// Copyright 2008 Google Inc. All rights reserved.
//
// Use of this source code is governed by a BSD-style
// license that can be found in the LICENSE file or at
// https://developers.google.com/open-source/licenses/bsd

#include "google/protobuf/compiler/plugin.h"
#include "google/protobuf/compiler/ruby/ruby_generator.h"

int main(int argc, char *argv[]) {
google::protobuf::compiler::ruby::Generator generator;
return google::protobuf::compiler::PluginMain(argc, argv, &generator);
}
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cc_binary(
name = "protoc-gen-rust",
srcs = ["main.cc"],
visibility = ["//rust:__pkg__"],
visibility = ["//visibility:public"],
deps = [
":rust",
"//src/google/protobuf/compiler:plugin",
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